Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 422
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Bible: that is, The Holy Scriptures . . . Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke [with Sternhold/Hopkins metrical Psalms]. General and NT titles within woodcut historiated border showing the Tribes of Israel, the Evangelists, and the Apostles; woodcut text illustrations and maps. [3] (of [4]?), 190; 127; 121, [11] leaves; [10], 93 [i. e., 91], [11] pages, with sheets of first gathering in metrical Psalms partly out of order; lacks blank 2Q8. 4 parts in one volume. 4to, 209x163 mm, early 19th-sheep, badly worn, binding broken; contents toned, scattered ink blots and stains, general title trimmed to border and mounted, next preliminary leaf inlaid to size, lower outer corner torn off 2N3 with text and slight image loss, rust hole through 3I3 affecting a couple of words, clean tear in 3I7, last leaf of metrical Psalms soiled and creased. sold as is. [Netherlands, after 1617?]

Additional Details

Geneva-Tomson-Junius version; issue with general title within woodcut border, without imprint or colophon. "Sometimes known as the 'Goose Bible,' from the bird in the device with the motto God is my Helper, which appears on the title-page of the Metrical Psalms. Supposed to have been printed at Dort"--Herbert 255. STC 2180, 2499.7.