2 volumes, 4to (295 x 233 mm). (Some light staining, toning, and chipping.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt (some light wear, corners bumped). Provenance: Mary Smith (early signature); Smith family (several pages of family history, ca late 18th- mid 19th-century); sold Edmund Lloyd, E. Lloyd (bookseller’s ticket); 
 

Ambassador Edward J. Perkins’ Bible.  Perkins, a career diplomat, served as U. S. Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, the United Nations and Australia.  He was also director of the United States State Department’s Diplomatic Corps.  Perkins served on the Task Force on Religion and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy, and believed that in diplomacy, “the best way to understand the forces we were up against was to understand the religion.”