The Holy Bible
Containing The Old And New Testaments
Together With The
Apocrypha
Translated Out Of The Original Tongues,
And With The Former Translations Diligently Compared And Revised
With Marginal Notes And References
Published by Kimber And Conrad
No. 93 Market Street
Philadelphia
Printed by M. Carey
1809
Hardcover binding.
Full Leather.
Raised spine bands, horizontal gilt spine ruling.
Partial original spine label.
Marbled endpapers.
Large binding ; 9" x 11"
Old Testament : (6) + 674 pages.
Tables : 2 pages.
Family Record : 4 pages.
The Apocrypha : 153 pages.
New Testament : 213 + (4) pages.
(6) + 1046 + (4) pages in total.
215 years old.
Antique, early American Holy Bible in a large, full leather binding.
King James Version ( KJV , Authorized )
Includes The Apocrypha.
Published in Philadelphia in 1809.
Consider that when this Bible was published, both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were still alive.
President George Washington had died just 10 years previously.
Note that this is a scarce imprint.
According to the National Archives ( The Founders ), the publisher, Kimber and Conrad ( Emmor Kimber and Solomon White Conrad ), started their partnership in 1806 and published books in Philadelphia until 1816.
Both men were born in Pennsylvania and both were Quakers.
Solomon White Conrad would go on to become a respected Philadelphia scientist.
( see Historical Information below )
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Condition.
Worn binding.
Some loss of spine leather ( see the photos ).
The original applied leather spine label is partially present ( see the photos ).
Both covers remain well attached.
The inner hinges are split, but firm.
The front free endpaper is worn at the inside edge.
Old waterstaining on the pages at the front; this is heavy at first but fades as the pages progress.
Lesser waterstaining on the last pages toward the end of the New Testament.
Heavy foxing throughout the book.
Some pages have a little edge-wear ( relatively light ).
A very old repair reattached a section of pages in Isaiah - Jeremiah ( done long ago, this was a well-done repair with the pages actually sewn back into place )
The first Family Record page has a tear at the lower margin.
The Family Record pages are blank , with no entries at all.
There is an old price, written in red ink, on the front endpapers.
No other writing.
Otherwise good.
215 years old.
Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.
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Historical Information :
Emmor Kimber (1775-1850), educator, publisher, Quaker minister, and a teacher in Philadelphia by 1799. He later wrote an arithmetic textbook.
A Quaker , Kimber built a Friends Meeting House on a corner of his property in 1802.
He established a printing and stationery partnership with Solomon White Conrad by 1806.
Kimber opened a boarding school for girls by 1818 at French Creek farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
In 1831 he received a patent for a " Carriage, locomotive, and rails adapted thereto."
Kimber’s varied philanthropic activities included providing aid to runaway slaves , etc.
He died at Kimberton , Chester County , Pennsylvania , on Sept. 1, 1850 , aged 75 years, in the village named for him.
Solomon White Conrad (1779-1831) was a publisher, printer, geologist, and botanist.
Born July 31, 1779 at Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , the son of John Conrad, a blacksmith and smelter.
He was a strict Quaker ( Religious Society Of Friends ).
By 1801 he was established as a printer and book seller in Philadelphia.
In 1806 he partnered with fellow Quaker Emmon Kimber as a book publisher on Market Street in Philadelphia ; the firm lasted about 10 years.
Conrad's home, in which he kept an impressive natural sciences collection of specimens, was a meeting place for notable scientists ; his home became the first Hall of Natural History in Philadelphia.
Conrad founded the "Agricultural Almanack" in 1816, which continued until 1829; it had a huge circulation, giving information about cattle breeding , etc.
Conrad's finances suffered due to the amount of time he spent on expeditions to collect of floral, shell and mineral specimens. He had a great reputation as a geologist and botanist. He was a specialist in mineral specimens , one of the most advanced in the United States at the time. His profession as a printer helped him excellently in preparing labels for his specimens.
In 1814 he published an article on "Zircon from Trenton, New Jersey," in the scientific journal " American Mineralogical Journal ."
In 1815 Conrad published a " Table of the Constituent Parts of Earthy Minerals ," with 150 minerals and rocks. He also wrote an article on minerals for the " Philadelphia Academy " magazine.
In 1816 he collaborated with Parker Cleveland on " Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology ," the first text of that kind published in the United States.
In 1823 he lectured at Mineralogy at the University of Pennsylvania, and by 1829 he was Professor of Botany there.
He was librarian of the Academy Of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia.
Solomon White Conrad died on October 2, 1831 at the age of 52 years.
This Bible includes The Apocrypha , a collection of fourteen books written after the last book of the Hebrew Scriptures ( Old Testament ) and before the first book of the Christian Scriptures ( New Testament ).
The Apocrypha consists of the material in the Septuagint that does not appear in the Hebrew Bible. Anglicans, Methodists, Lutherans, and others use the Apocrypha as a worship resource and as instruction in faith and morals, but do not use it to formulate doctrine.
The Roman Catholic Church and the eastern churches use it as part of the Old Testament.
The Apocrypha contains the history of the Maccabean revolt, which is vital to understanding the political backdrop of the New Testament and the origin of the Jewish holiday of Hanukah .