La Bible : qui est toute la saincte escriture du Vieil et du Nouueau Testament: autrement l'anciene & la nouuelle alliance, le tout reueu & confere̹ sur les textes Hebrieux & Grecs par les pasteurs & professeurs de l'eglise de Geneue. Augmente̹ d'indices & figures necessaires pour le contentement du lecteur
Bible, qvi est tovte la saincte escritvre dv Vieil & du Novveav Testament
Place of Publication
A Geneve
Publisher
[Iacob ChoueÃŒâ¸t],
Date of Publication
1608.
Physical Description
[8], 456, [1], 99, 133, [90] leaves : music ; 25 cm
Notes
Signatures: ii, iij, iiij, A¹Ìþ-Z¹Ìþ, Aa℗ø-LL℗ø, Aâ„—Ä‘-Nâ„—Ä‘, AA¹Ìþ-XX¹Ìþ, AAa¹Ìþ-IIh¹Ìþ.
Includes indexes.
Title vignette.
Double column text; historiated initials; head- and tail-pieces; printed marginalia.
Preliminary material includes an introductory epistle, preface by Calvin.
"Les sous-nomme̹s marchans libraires & imprimeurs ont par la permission des spectables ministres de l'Eglise de Geneue fait imprimer ceste bible ... Ce premier Iuillet. M. DCVIII. Iean le Preux, Iacob ChoueÃŒâ¸t, & Samuel Boreau", p. [11].
Books of Exodus and I Kings with illustrative figures.
"Les pseaumes de David mis en rime Francoise par Clement Marot, & Theodore de Beze," "La forme des prieres ecclesiastiques ...," "Le cathechisme ..." : l. [21]-[77] at end.
Contains "Les livres apocryphes."
Title page missing; some information written on first leaf.
Conserved in 1997 by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia
Poem, recipe, and song in older French not translated.
Genealogy of Isaac Lefevre and siblings (1660-1680) on back of leaf 104.
Genealogy of the children of Isaac Lefevre and Feree (1706-1719) on front of leaf 456.
Genealogy of Joseph Lefevre and Salome (1785-1826) on back of leaf 134 and continued on the front of leaf [1].
Genealogy of John Lefever and Elizabeth McClung and children (1823-1861) on front of second flyleaf.
Translations of some information on leaf 105 and leaf 456 attached on back of second and third flyleaves.
Letter of transmittal dated 22 April 1935 from Farmers Trust Company of Lancaster to the Lancaster Historical Society of the Lefevre family bible per the wishes of Elizabeth Lefevre.
Viewing bibles contingent on staff availability, an appointment is required.
Lefevre family bible.
Obituary of Mary Lefever, age 45. (newspaper clipping, dated February 25?)
"Full leather over wooden boards, brass clasps with (missing) leather straps trhough the fold onto four raised cords." Note of conservator.
John Sanderson's name appears as above on t.-p. of v. 1-4.
Vols. 1-2 edited by John Sanderson, v. 3-6 by Robert Wain, jr. v. 7-9 are without editor's name, but were edited by Henry D. Gilpin, according to statement in Mrs. Eliza Gilpin's Memorial of Henry D. Gilpin, Phildelphia, 1860, p. 194. Volumes numbered on the half-titles.
A list of authors of the biographies (originally published in the New York times) may be found in Proc. of Mass. hist. soc., 1876-1877 [v. 15] p. 393.
Contents
John Hancock (v.1) ; Benjamin Franklin, George Wythe, Francis Hopkinson, Robert Treat Paine (v.2) ; Edward Rutledge, Lyman Hall, Oliver Wolcott, Richard Stockton, Button Gwinnett, Josiah Bartlett, Philip Livingston, Roger Sherman (v.3) ; Thomas Heyward, George Read, William Williams, Samuel Huntington, William Floyd, George Walton, George Clymer, Benjamin Rush (v.4) ; Thomas Lynch, Jr., Matthew Thornton, William Whipple, John Witherspoon, Robert Morris (v.5) ; Arthur Middleton, Abraham Clark, Francis Lewis, John Penn. James Wilson, Carter Braxton, John Morton, Stephen Hopkins, Thomas McKean (v.6) ; Thomas Jefferson, William Hooper, James Smith, Charles Carroll, Thomas Nelson Jr., Joseph Hewes (v.7) ; Elbridge Gerry, Cesar Rodney, Benjamin Harrison, William Paca, George Ross, John Adams (v.8) ; Richard Henry Lee, George Taylor, John Hart, Lewis Morris, Thomas Stone, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Samuel Chase, William Ellery, Samuel Adams (v.9).
Introduction to the English reader : or, A selection of pieces, in prose and poetry, calculated to improve the younger classes of learners in reading, and to imbue their minds with the love of virture. To which are added, rules and observations for assisting children to read with propriety
xiv p., 1 ø., 280 p. front. (port.) facsim. 22 x 13 cm.
Notes
Lindley Murray, was an American Quaker lawyer, writer and grammarian, best known for his English language grammar-books used in schools in England and the United States. Wikipedia
"The latest editions of Murray's works": p. 271-279.
A narrative of the mission of the United Brethren among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians : from its commencement, in the year 1740, to the close of the year 1808 ; comprising all the remarkable incidents which took place at their missionary stations during that period ; interspersed with anecdotes, historical facts, speeches of Indians, and other interesting matter
The political writings of Thomas Paine : secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is prefixed a brief sketch of the author's life
Volume I chapters: Sketch of the Life of Thomas Paine // Common Sense // Epistle to the Quakers // "The Crisis" numbers 1 through 16 // Public Good. On The Claim of Virginia to the Western Territory // Letter to the abbe Raynal // Dissertations on government , the affairs of the bank , and paper money // Miscellaneous
Volume II chapters: Prospects of the Rubicon // Rights of man Part 1. Being an answer to Mr Burke 's attack on the French Revolution // Rights of Man Part 2. Combining principles and practice // Letter to theauthors of The Republican // Letter to the abbe Sieyes // Address to the Addressers // Letters to Lord Onslow // Dissertation on First Principles of government // Speech delivered to the French National Convention // Letter to Mr Secretary Dundas // The Decline and Fall of the English system of Finance // Letter to the People of France // Reasons for preserving the life of Louis Capet as delivered to the national convention // Agrarian justice, opposed to agrarian law, and to agrarian monopoly.