The Life of Our Saviour Jesus Christ; Together with the Lives and Sufferings of His Holy Apostles, Evangelists, & Other Primitive Martyrs, Who Have Laid Down Their Lives in the Glorious Cause of Christianity. Also, a Defence of Our Holy Religion, Against the Objections of Infidels. By the Rev. John Fleetwood, D.D. To Which is Subjoined, a Sketch of Ecclesiastical History, from the Close of the Sacred Canon to the Reformation: Carefully Selected from the Writings of the Late Learned John Lawrence Mosheim, D.D. Chancellor of the University of Gottingen. By J. A. Stewart, Esq. Oxford: Printed and Published by Bartlett, 1815.
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Illustrated with full page plates depicting various people and scenes from the Holy Bible.
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Ephemera:
Handwritten legal document dated 1832 pertaining to the sale of land, as well as a handwritten amendment to the agreement.
Large foldout map titled "Supplement to Jackson's Oxford Journal - Saturday, March 25, 1854" depicting Russia and Turkey.
And, a large foldout map depicting the Baltic Sea, titled "Supplement to Jackson's Oxford Journal - Saturday, April 1, 1854."
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Size: 265 x 385 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[frontis, engraved title, t.p., iii-xxii, 455pp., 1pp.]
Full brown calf with gilt title to spine in a compartments between raised bands, other compartments with decorative gilt designs, and a slim tooled border to both boards. Binding rubbed and scuffed, with some loss to the bakcstrip. Both boards attached with cracked hinges, rear joint cracked and front joint starting, thus fragile. The leather peeling slightly at the extremities of the joints. Shelf and edge wear. Page edges toned. Ink inscription to the head of the front blank. Text block very clean with light edge toning and occasional foxing.
