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From the Biblical Library of Stanley S. Slotkin, Los Angeles, Founder of Abbey Rents
1. Christliche Sitten-Lehr über die Evangelische Wahrheiten / Franz Hunolt. Augsburg, 1764 [leaf 37] -- 2. Cursus theologicus scholastico-dogmaticus sive Praelectionum theologicarum / Honoré Tournély. Coloniae Agrippinae, 1752 [leaf 249] -- 3. Commentarium Literale in omnes ac singulos tum Veteris Testamenti libros / Augustin Calmet. 1734 [leaf 469] -- 4. The works of the Reverend and Learned John Lightfoot D.D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge / John Lightfoot. London, 1684 [leaf 644] -- 5. Athenaiou Deipnosophiston biblia pentekaideka = Athenai Deipnosophistarum libri quindecim / Athenaeus. Lugduni,1657 [leaf 395] -- 6. Operum omnium medico-phisicorum / Michael Ettmüller. Lugduni, 1660 [leaf 443] -- 7. Spicilegium universale sacro-profanum / Joseph Ignaz Claus. 1750 [leaf 131] -- 8. The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments : translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translation diligently compared and revised. And the Apocrypha. Philadelphia, Printed for Berriman & Co. by Jacob R. Berriman, 1796 [unnumbered leaf] -- 9. Biblia, das ist, Die ganze Heilige Schrift des alten und Neuen Testaments. Philadelphia, 1797 [leaf 935] -- 10. Opera omnia physico-medica. Denuo revisa, correcta et aucta / Friedrich Hoffman. Genevae, 1748 [t. 1?, leaf 265] -- 11. Commentarii in tertiam partem S. Tho. Aquinatis / Franciscus Sylvius. Antwerp, 1695 [leaf 15] -- 12. Missale Romanum ex Decreto sacrosancti concilii tridentini restitutum. Rome, 1677 [leaf 315].
12 original leaves from early printed monographs stapled on individual sheets with facsimiles of each monograph's title page. With annotations by Stanley S. Slotkin to show bibliographical significance, or to explain origins and where found by collector.
The Cushing Library/Laughlin Collection copy contains a separate leaf with illustrated photoreproduction of newspaper articles from 1969 publicizing Slotkin's giving away of "old Bible pages" to any church, library or organization that will display them.
Acquired for the Cushing Library/Laughlin Collection by The Cushing Library.
Notes and captions in English; facsimiles & originals include text in English, German, Latin.
Stanley S. Slotkin was a successful Los Angeles businessman who owned the medical and party supply rental company Abbey Rents. He was also an avid collector of antique Bibles and other rare books, amassing hundreds of thousands of books which he also regularly donated to various museums, universities, churches, and libraries across the United States. In the 1960s, Slotkin began to donate individual leaves from books to institutions rather than whole works, as he felt intact books were too often locked away where they could not be seen. He dismembered a number of books, and donated sets of pages to any institution that would agree to display them publicly.
Original leaves are from disbound books previously in the Biblical Library of Stanley S. Slotkin.