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Bidding Information
Lot #    11173
Auction End Date    8/16/2005 10:42:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    History of the Bible and Jews
Author    [First Ed.] [Eliphalet Gillet]
City    Hallowell, Maine
Publisher    Ezekiel Goodale by Benjamin Edes
Publication Date    1806
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 312 pp., 172:104 mm., nice margins, usual age staining. A good copy bound in contemporary leather boards, rubbed. Not in Rosebach.
          
Detailed
Description		    First edition as such, and relatively uncommon. This is an English rendition of Jan Philipsz Schabaelje’s 1635 Lusthof des gemoets, a retelling of Old and New Testament history as a series of conversations between an inquisitive pilgrim and various Biblical figures, here edited and “accomodated to the use of schools in America” by the Rev. Gillet.Gillet, who also published a number of sermons and discourses, was a founding member of the First Congregational Church in Pittston, Maine, as well as a member of the Maine Missionary Society. At back is a list of Goodale’s other publications, to be had at the “Sign of the Bible.”
          
Reference
Description		    Singerman 0162 (no copy in NYPL); Shaw & Shoemaker 10485
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica