1827 LDS JOSEPH SMITH COOPERSTOWN PHINNEY BIBLE w/ MAYFLOWER PASSENGER GENEALOGY

Description: PRESENTING... A TRULY AMAZING MORMON & AMERICAN HISTORY RELIC! H. & E. Phinney 's Stereoyped Edition: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues...etc...Canne's Marginal Notes and References...To Which are Added an Index....etc Cooperstown: Stereotyped, Printed & Published by H. E. Phinney, 1827. The publishers are legendary - The Phinney brothers, Henry and Elihu, carried on the business their father, Elihu Phinney, had started in 1795; the elder Phinney had established a press, bookshop, and newspaper after resettling in Cooperstown from Connecticut. James Fenimore Cooper, a delegate to the 1816 convention that formed the American Bible Society, learned to set type in his shop for fun (Hills, 69). The younger Phinneys, however, were not to be restricted to one shop: They sold their stock (which consisted of their own publications together with books brought in from Philadelphia and New York) from large travelling wagons and established a "bookboat" on the Erie Canal that enabled them to reach a larger portion of western New York. This is a truly unique piece of history....an early Cooperstown King James Version Bible, The SAME PUBLISHER Phinney Edition Used by LDS leader Joseph Smith to help translate the Book of Mormon! (Smith used Phinney Bibles to translate in 1828!) EXTREMELY VALUABLE SACRED IMPRINT! Attractively weathered leather well kept; the spine with gilt ruled raised bands as shown with original title label. Leather with great patina. With expected wear and use as shown - please message with questions. Block nice and toned, with great presence. Measures 11" x 9" x 3". Family pages and leaves with multiple entries as shown. With Captain Elijah Lord and Sarah Doty’s family’s genealogy – both with illustrious American histories: Sarah Doty’s great-great-grandfather, Edward Doty (1598-1635), was a passenger on the 1620 voyage of the Mayflower to North America; he was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact (see attached images from Family Search and Wikipedia). Sarah Doty’s husband, Captain Elijah Lord, also has a rich family history. His great-great-grandfather, Dr. Thomas Lord (1585 – 1644), immigrated to Colonial America aboard the ship “Elizabeth & Ann” in 1635, was educated in Boston, and became a Founder of Hartford and “the first regularly educated physician in Connecticut” (see attached images from Family Search). Truly a historic relic. This is a great candidate for a quiet reflective evening or a timeless conversation piece, & is a true piece of both Mormon & American history that still inspires and reflects.

Price: 1200 USD

Location: Muskego, Wisconsin

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