Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIBLE IN ANGLO-SAXON.) Heptateuchus, Liber Job, et Angelium Nicodemi; Anglo-Saxonice. Historiae Judith Fragmentum; Dano-Saxonice. Edited by Edward Thwaites. Engraved frontispiece. [8], 168, 32 pages. Text printed in Anglo-Saxon type apart from front matter in Latin. 8vo, 225x147 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked retaining most of worn original backstrip, endpapers renewed; light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end. Contemporary ownership inscription ("Ex dono Ingeniosissimi Editoris") of Charles Williams of Queen's College, Oxford, on front flyleaf; later signature of J. Nourse; modern booklabel of C. E. Fell. Darlow & Moule 1606; Wing B2198. Oxford: at the Theater, 1698