Old testament extract (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Moderate rubbing and fading to boards. Spine cloth faded. A small 3/8" chip to cloth at tip of lower corner of front board.; The Old Testament books from Proverbs through Malachi. Text in Te Reo Maori. [4], 377 pages. Original blind-stamped purple cloth boards. "Kawenata Tawhito" in blind-stamped letters in the centre of the front board. Pale yellow endpapers. Page dimensions: 182 x 103mm. Some pencil notations on front endpaper. [Bibliographical Reference: BIM 470 - "prepared from the revised probationary texts of [Robert] Maunsell's translation [. . .] the third and final volume of the BFBS [British and Foreign Bible Society] edition of the Old Testament; the earlier volumes were the Hexateuch (1848, no. 352) and Judges-Psalms (1855, no. 455), an interim edition until the complete Bible was published in 1868 (no. 716)." BIM notes bindings of full calf or of royal blue, "the latter with blind tooling", but not the colour of this particular copy.]; 8vo.…