September Online Auction (Sale #352)
Lot 309:
Description
Bible and Holy Book Assortment
(7) items, (3) English language including an undated Bible having mother of pearl mosaic on cloth covered boards, illustrated from photographs of Jerusalem, souvenir edition published by Collins, London, from 1865 and 1870 leather bound American Bible Society issues as well as an undated leather bound Episcopal Book of Common Prayer having a brass hasp from Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York, an 1877 German language devotional book on the Virgin Mary having bone veneer over cloth boards, chromolithograph plates and brass hasp, a leather bound Serbian Church Slavonic Cyrillic Bible having brass hasps, an applied brass 2-headed eagle to front cover and an Arabic manuscript Koran portion having a leather binding ruled, stamped in blind
Property from: a Private Collector, Rockford, Ilinois
Height: 6 3/4 inches, Width: 4 3/4 inches, Depth: 1 1/8 inches (largest)
Disclaimers: individual pages have not been inspected
Category: Collectibles > Religious
Estimated Sale Time: 1:23 pm CST
Shipping Status:
Shipping Quote
Last modified: August 17, 2026, 2:38 pm
Condition report:
overall light to heavy wear consistent with normal use, mother of pearl decorated having splits to cloth at hinges, 1865 Bible having detached cover, Serbian text block split after preliminary pages, having pencil notations and edge chips, losses to leather, damaged rear end papers, Arabic disbound, loose pages, areas of insect predation, losses to leather
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