1698 Admiral Byng- John Bunyan THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE Pilgrim's Progress Bible

Description: $$$ EXTREMELY VALUABLE $$$ INCREDIBLY RARE & SCARCE 1698 "THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE, OR THE EXCELLENCY OF A BROKEN HEART, SHEWING THE NATURE, SIGNS AND PROPER EFFECTS OF A CONTRITE SPIRIT" BY JOHN BUNYAN, AUTHOR OF THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS! WITH ITS ORIGINAL LEATHER BINDING! CONTAINS A MANUSCRIPT NOTATION ON THE FAMOUS ADMIRAL BYNG BRINGING SHIPS INTO PLIMOUTH HARBOR. HE WAS LATER EXECUTED FOR COWARDICE! London, printed for Rich Janeway Jr., 1698. Third Edition. 12mo Measures 5.75" x 3.5" (approx 15x9cm) Bound in its Original Leather Binding, rebacked with Original Spine laid over! Contains 163 printed pages plus advertisement page in rear! foxing throughout. 100% COMPLETE!!! With an Ink Inscription on the rear blank that reads: "Rear Admiral Byng bringing some Ships, a Man of War and some French Privateers into Plimouth Harbor" (He was later Executed for Incompetency and for being a Coward) Also Signed with an Inscription by Thomas Bolay. (See The Many Other 1600s-1700s John Bunyans in the "John Bunyan" section of my Store!) ADMIRAL JOHN BYNG (baptised 29 October 1704 – 14 March 1757) was a Royal Navy officer. After joining the navy at the age of thirteen, he participated at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718. Over the next thirty years he built up a reputation as a solid naval officer and received promotion to vice-admiral in 1747. He also served as Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland Colony in the 1740s, and was a member of parliament from 1751 until his death. Byng is best known for failing to relieve a besieged British garrison during the Battle of Minorca at the beginning of the Seven Years' War. Byng had sailed for Minorca at the head of a hastily assembled fleet of vessels, some of which were in poor condition. He fought an inconclusive engagement with a French fleet off the Minorca coast, and then elected to return to Gibraltar to repair his ships. Upon return to Britain, Byng was court-martialed and found guilty of failing to "do his utmost" to prevent Minorca falling to the French. He was sentenced to death and, after pleas for clemency were denied, he was shot dead by a firing squad on 14 March 1757. !!!ATTENTION!!! I AM SELLING HUNDREDS OF RARE BOOKS AND ANTIQUES FROM THE 1400s-1700s! .. EVERYTHING MUST GO!!! SEE MY OTHER RARE & VALUABLE ANTIQUES BEING AUCTIONED RIGHT NOW AND MAKE ME AN OFFER!!! Payment is requested after auction ends. Thank you and God Bless You!

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