Description: 1715 King James Bible With Geneva Notes and Amazing Maps (Best maps I've seen in any Bible) Impressive Folio Measuring 10.5" x 17" in Handsome Contemporary Calf with Brass Clasps (intact and working) With 6 Amazing Folding Maps (all original and complete) BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments... WITH: The Book of Common Prayer... [Amsterdam: 1715]. Folio (measuring 10-1/2 by 17 inches), contemporary full diced paneled brown calf over beveled wooden boards rebacked with original spine laid down, raised bands, new endpapers, brass claps and catches (all working). Handsomely bound 1715 Amsterdam edition of the King James Bible, including the marginal notes of the Geneva Bible, with six folding maps - including one of the New World that depicts California as an island, Canaan, Jerusalem, etc. - distinguished in full contemporary calf and brass clasps and catches. First published in 1611 and indisputably the most influential of English Bible translations, the King James Version has exercised incalculable influence on piety, language and literature. This edition identifies no publisher or place but likely hails from Amsterdam. In 1642, Joost Broerss of Amsterdam was the first publisher to produce a Bible combining the King James text with the Geneva Bible's notes - an interesting blend, since the ostensibly seditious sentiments found in the notes played a major part in James I's decision to commission a new Bible. The marginal notes, those famous spectacles for weak eyes, along with the sacred texts itself, exercised a most profound influence on the theological and ecclesiastical history of England and Scotland for the next two or three generations (Bruce Metzger, Theology Today 17:3, October 19650). This edition also boasts six folding maps by Joseph Moxon. The world map depicts California as an island; "owning to a misinterpretation of certain reports from Spanish explorers," California was often depicted as an island between 1622 and 1730 (Lister, 27). Bound with uniform 1715 editions of the eloquent Book of Common Prayer (first published 1549) and Sternhold and Hopkin's popular metrical psalter. Includes Apocrypha. Without Leaf Y4 (2 Samuel 6:21-12:12); leaf Y5 bound in twice. Handsomely bound in contemporary diced paneled calf, with a central, ornate blind-stamped lozenge to each board. Darlow & Moule 731. Herbert 936. Griffiths 1715:8. Owner signatures. Marginal tissue restoration to first few leaves of prayer book and final leaf (blank). Light age-wear to handsome contemporary binding. A distinguished Bible in excellent condition. This bible makes a great display piece with the amazing fold-out maps! It's also a VERY unique book to add to your collection - quite rare to see a KJV have GENEVA the notes in it.
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Fine Binding
Origin: English
Place of Publication: Amsterdam
Language: English
Special Attributes: KING JAMES REVISION
Author: GOD
Topic: Christianity, Bibles
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Subject: Religion & Spirituality
Year Printed: 1715
Original/Facsimile: Original
