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The Self-Interpreting Bible: containing the sacred text of the Old and New Testaments: translated from the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, to which are annexed, marginal references and illustrations, an exact summary of the several books, a paraphrase on the most obscure or important parts, an analysis of the contents of each chapter, explanatory notes, and evangelical reflections by the late Rev. John Brown….Vol. 1 Genesis to Revelation.

The Self-Interpreting Bible: containing the sacred text of the Old and New Testaments: translated from the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, to which are annexed, marginal references and illustrations, an exact summary of the several books, a paraphrase on the most obscure or important parts, an analysis of the contents of each chapter, explanatory notes, and evangelical reflections by the late Rev. John Brown….Vol. 1 Genesis to Revelation.

May 14, 2017

Published: New York: Hodge and Campbell, 1792. Folio. Three-quarter contemporary calf. Frontispiece, title page, and last few pages in facsimile. This 1792 printing is famous as the first United States printing of the “Brown Bible” and for its “List of Subscribers,” beginning with George Washington. Language: English

The English hexapla : exhibiting the six important English translations of the New Testament Scriptures, Wyclif, M. CCC. LXXX.; Tyndale, M.D. XXXIV; Cranmer, M.D. XXXIX; Genevan, M.D. LVII; Anglo-Rhemish, M.D. LXXXII; Authorised, M. DC. XI.; the original Greek text after Scholz, with the various readings of the textus receptus and the principal Constantinopolitan and Alexandrine manuscripts, and a complete collation of Scholz’s text with Griesbach’s edition of M. DCCC. V; preceded by an historical account of the English translations.

The English hexapla : exhibiting the six important English translations of the New Testament Scriptures, Wyclif, M. CCC. LXXX.; Tyndale, M.D. XXXIV; Cranmer, M.D. XXXIX; Genevan, M.D. LVII; Anglo-Rhemish, M.D. LXXXII; Authorised, M. DC. XI.; the original Greek text after Scholz, with the various readings of the textus receptus and the principal Constantinopolitan and Alexandrine manuscripts, and a complete collation of Scholz’s text with Griesbach’s edition of M. DCCC. V; preceded by an historical account of the English translations.

April 25, 2017

Published: London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1841. Quarto. Three-quarter brown leather. Language: English