Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

51 GIFT INSCRIPTION BYTHEODORE ROOSEVELT TO HIS HOMETOWN LIBRARY 49 c   (BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) Tissot, J. James; illustrator. The Old Testament * The Life of Our Saviour Jesus Christ. Numerous plates and text illustrations. 4 volumes. Folio, contemporary matched green morocco with gilt turn-ins, joints just starting, minor wear; about a dozen plates in the second volume of the Life damaged from adhesion to the tissue guards; title pages in red and black; gift inscription on first flyleaf. Paris, London and NewYork: Brunoff, 1904 * NewYork: Doubleday, 1899 [800/1,200] A handsome set of two fine biblical printings, inscribed “To the Oyster Bay Library with the regards of Theodore Roosevelt July 9th 1906.” In 1899 Roosevelt had laid the cornerstone for the library, located about mile from his Sagamore Hill estate.Many of the plates appear in two states: colored and uncolored. 50    (BIBLE IN ENGLISH—NEW TESTAMENT.) Burkitt, William; editor. Expository Notes, with Practical Observations upon the New Testament. 1168 pages. 4to, modern 1 / 4 calf; foxing, a few minor tears; 1823 owner’s inscription on title page. New Haven, CT: Abel Morse, 1794 [700/1,000] The first American edition of William Burkitt’s annotated text, first published in England in 1703. Evans 26668; Hills 47. None others traced at auction since a Swann sale, 26 May 1949, lot 285. 49 PRESENTEDTO ZACHARYTAYLOR AS PRESIDENT 51 c   (BIBLE IN ENGLISH—PSALMS.) The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, bound with Selections from the Psalms of David, in Metre (New York, 1846) * and 131 pages from an unidentified hymnal without a title page. xx, 580; 132; 131 pages. 8vo, full morocco gilt, minor wear; front hinge split, moderate foxing, minor dampstaining; gilt morocco presentation mounted on front pastedown. NewYork: Harper & Brothers, 1850 [1,200/1,800] “Presented to Zachary Taylor, President of the United States, by the New-York Bible & Common Prayer Book Society, January 1st, 1850.” Provenance: collection of Dr. John Lattimer; Alexander Auctions sale, 20 January 2010, lot 289.