1789 HOLY BIBLE Pocket SCOTTISH Fine Binding ANTIQUE Leather KING JAMES Rare
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1789 HOLY BIBLE Pocket SCOTTISH Fine Binding ANTIQUE Leather KING JAMES Rare:
$699.99
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, etc.
Edinburgh: Printed by the Assigns of Alexander Kincaid, 1789.
Scarce and beautifully bound pocket Holy Bible in gilt detailed leather with gilt borders, designs, embellishments and adornments, as shown. Gilt page edges as well, faded a bit. Spine with similar designs to covers, lacking the title label. Quite rare. Some light wear, pages crisp and clean although with scattered browning, staining and a few pencil streaks. Period marbled endpapers, with a gift inscription to Horatio Gates Ware pasted down, also signature by him on flyleaf, also a Ware family member on the title. Very attractive, rare and 100% complete. Bible covers Genesis - Isaiah, being Vol I of a II vol set. Measures 5.25\" x 3\"x 1.25\". Good luck!
“Horatio Gates Ware (1811), grocer, of Boston, brother of Daniel L. (1811) son of Melatiah and Chloe M. Ware, was born in Foxboro, Mass., June 8, 1778. He married, ‘Saturday evening, Jan. 30, 1808,’ Keziah E. Goodnow.
His early life was spent in Wilmington, Vt., his parents having moved there about 1783. Early in life he came to Boston, and, as a clerk, entered the employ of Gore & Harris, importers and wholesale dealers in West India goods. He occupied after them, in the same trade, the same building, during the remainder of his business life.
He was a member of the common council of Boston in 1822, and for many years was a justice of the peace. He was made an honorary member of the Artillery Company May 27, 1819.
Mr. Ware (1811) died in Boston, Feb. 8, 1856 after ‘a plain, happy, honorable private life.’ ‘Living or dying, he was debtor to no man.’ ”
Source: History of the Military Co. of Massachusetts, Vol. 2, by Oliver Ayer Roberts, Alfred Mudge and Sons, Printers, Boston, 1897, page 358
1789 HOLY BIBLE Pocket SCOTTISH Fine Binding ANTIQUE Leather KING JAMES Rare:
$699.99