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BREECHES BIBLE. London: Robert Barker, 8vo - over 7¾" -

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BREECHES BIBLE. London: Robert Barker, 8vo - over 7¾  -
BREECHES BIBLE. London: Robert Barker, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fair condition. So called due to Gen. 3:7 reads "Then the eyes of them both were opened....and they sewed figge tree leaves together, and made themselves 'breeches.' "THIS IS NOT AN EX-LIBRARY BOOK. Lacks free endpapers and title page. Begins with "The Summe of the Whole Scripture of the Books of the Old and New Testament - 1 leaf. "Certain Questions and Answeres Touching the Doctrine of Predestination, the Use of Gods Words and Sacraments - 2 leaves. The Christian Reader - 1 leaf. The First Booke of Moses, called Genesis ...through the Revelation of John the Divine - 554 leaves. TWO RIGHT PROFITABLE and Fruitfull Concordances, or Large and Ample Tables Alphabeticall.....Collected by R.F.H. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker - 1605. Title [1] 79 leaves (unpaginated). THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS Collected Into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others, Conferred With Hebrew. Printed by Richard Cotes for the Company of Stationers - 1649. Title, 1 Table, 78pp. Bound in full leather, raised bands on spine. Later leather binding, folds over early ownership name on inside cover - David Burgess 1782. Front cover nearly detached, cover/corner wear, edge/corner chipping, loss to corners of first few leaves. Psalms bound in with this early edition? Includes research notes from previous owner.