Beschreibung:

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues..., Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the University, 1727, engraved frontispiece, general title in red & black with engraved illustration, letterpress New Testament title present and facing frontispiece, four double-page engraved maps and one double-page engraved plan of Jerusalem, Apocrypha present, occasional marginal fraying, front blank inscribed 'Mercy Hingsberg, London, March 7th 1732/3', and 'Given to Richard How of Aspley by Herman Hingsberg 20th April 1764', contemporary blind panelled diced calf, joints split, worn at head & foot of spine and to board edges (corners showing), folio (leaf size 45.5 x 28.7cm), together with other 18th century Bibles (some defective), including The Christian's Family Bible..., with Comments and Annotations... by W. Rider, 3 volumes, 1765, The Holy Bible... London: Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, 1701, The Holy Bible..., Carmarthen: Printed by John Ross 1789, The Holy Bible, Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the University, 1739, The Holy Bible, Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the University, 1770, The Christian's New and Complete British Family Bible... A Complete Universal Library of Divine Knowledge... by Paul Wright London: Alex Hogg, circa 1800(?), The Christian's New and Compleat Family Bible..., a Compleat Body of Christian Divinity... by the Rev. Thomas Bankes, London: J. Cooke, circa 1780s(?) etc. (Qty: 12) Mercy Hingsberg née How of Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire (1686-1763), first married Thomas Fage (died 1713) and had a son, also called Thomas (1708-1732). Her second marriage was to Herman Hingsberg (1690-1766) and they had a son Peter who died in 1727 in Buckinghamshire. Mercy had a nephew Richard How (1727-1801) and it is possible he is the Richard How of Aspley referred to in the inscription.