Holiday Gifts 2020

5 Holiday Gifts December 2020 “Our Heartiest Wish For Every Boy And Girl—‘A Very Merry Christmas’” 5. (CHRISTMAS) Frank & Seder’s Toyland activity book. New York, 1939. Slim folio (8 by 11 inches), staple-bound as issued, original pictorial paper wrappers. $225. Click for more info First edition of this advertising booklet intended as a giveaway to children visiting Santa at the Toyland at Frank & Seder’s Department Store, with six pages in color, in original pictorial wrappers. Mild toning, a few small closed tears to bright original wrappers, a few expert repairs to wrappers and text at fold. Illustrated With Over 200 Fine Engravings After John Sturt 4. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. BOUND WITH: The Book of Common Prayer. BOUND WITH: DOWNAME, John. A Brief Concordance or Table to the Bible. London, 1740, 1744, 1739. Thick quarto, contemporary full red morocco gilt. $6000. Click for more info Early 18th-century edition of the King James Bible, copiously illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of George II, 200 delicate copper-plates (four each on 50 interleaved sheets) re-engraved by John Cole after images created by master engraver John Sturt, and six folding maps, beautifully bound in contemporary full red morocco gilt. Owner inscription on verso of first leaf illegible; small, light owner signature to bottom margin of D3 (Bible). Beautiful. Early Folio King James Bible, 1639, With Three Full-Page Wood Engravings, In Handsome Contemporary Calf 3. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament and the New. London, 1639. Folio (8-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches), contemporary full calf rebacked. $6500. Click for more info 1639 edition of the venerable King James Bible—“the most celebrated book in the English-speaking world” (Campbell, 1)— with three intricate full-page engraved leaves (general and New Testament title pages and illustration of the Garden of Eden), handsome in contemporary calf boards. An excellent Bible in very good condition. C h r i s t m a s