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Extensively and beautifully
illustrated 'Latest Reference Holy Bible'
, including
numerous full page (including some Gustave
Dore) engravings, chromolithographs (color engravings) and color maps.
This 'coffee-table (folio) size' and very extensive reference Family Bible has
intricate gold-embedded decorated covers and spine, all with the gold-letter text "Holy Bible-
with the Revised New Testament" and
"Bible Dictionary and Cities of the Bible - 2000 illustrations". Gold gilt pages
and fully functional closing clasps. The Bible text is
the King James/Authorized Version for the Old and New Testament and
the Apocrypha plus additionally the text of the New Testament in the
Revised Version.
Additionally there are
extensive other resources included, like: Complete History of
Each Book of the Bible; Cities of the Bible, with Descriptive Scenes
and Events in Palestine; Jewish and Egyptian Antiquities; Biblical
Scenery; Manners and Customs of the Ancients; Natural History;
History of the Jewish Worship; Biblical Antiquities; Explorations of
the Holy Land; History of Herod; Indices and tables; and so on
(see pictures).... ALSO: Comprehensive Dictionary of the
Bible, the Psalms in Metre and Cruden's Complete Concordance to the
Holy Sculptures. "The whole embellished with two thousand
illustrative engravings on steel, wood and in colors -
chromolithographs of scriptural natural history"
There are is a blank
presentation page in the front, a wedding pages, pages to record
family history and pages for family
pictures in the back.
This Bible is in an overall VERY
GOOD condition. Binding is fine but handle with care (we
did not restore the binding of this Bible). Typical wear for its
age. Corners are rubbed. No writings, typical light browning of paper,
some foxing. Original family pages and fully functional closing
clasps.
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