First off, apologies if this is the wrong place. It's the first place I thought of when my mum asked me if I could find anything out about it. If so, where would be the best place to ask?
Here's the book: http://imgur.com/a/P42ys
From what I can tell, this was "Published as the Act directs, May 1st 1809 by Robert Scholey 46 Paternoster row" and "Printed by T. Davison, Lombard Street, Whitefriars".
I think the text on the cover is hebrew, but I was unable to do anything more than identify that it looks like the letter "Khaf" with the letter "Tav" with some accents around it.
Mainly what I want to know is what it says on the front, if the crest(?) on the front has any meaning or significance (my sister's boyfriend think it's Illuminati related...), but also anything else that might be worth knowing.
Thanks for any help!
Paternoster Row and Whitefriars are in London near St. Paul's Cathedral, the seat of the Anglican diocese of London. Paternoster Row was the center of English publishing at the time this Bible was printed. Given the time and location of publishing, the Bible is almost certainly the King James version.
The emblem on the front is a dove on a beam of light, a very common Christian symbol and, apologies to your sister's boyfriend, not connected to the Illuminati unless you REALLY want it to be. (The dove represents the Holy Spirit.) The Hebrew text in the middle is somewhat unusual for a Bible, however. Sorry I can't help you with what the text says, although the way the dove is displayed calls to mind a part of the Gospels in which Jesus's baptism in the Jordan is interrupted by the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove and the words "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
The Hebrew letters are the tetragrammaton the name of God. Written as YHWH, here with added vowel marks, in Jewish tradition it is not to be pronounced by mortal mouths, but it's usually transliterated as Yahweh and hence Jehovah.