Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIBLE IN GREEK.) [Kaine Diatheke] Novum Testamentum. 478 pages plus final blank leaf. 12mo, contemporary tree calf, minor wear; lacking the ad leaf, minimal dampstaining, lacking advertising leaf; early owners' light pencil inscriptions and notes, later bookseller's tag on rear pastedown. Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, April 1800 [1802]
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first american edition of the new testament in greek, edited by Caleb Alexander and drawing on the 1678 Elzevir Bible and John Mill's 1707 notes. Darlow & Moule 4775; Evans 36952; Wright, page 133. Provenance: inscription of Daniel E. Colby (1815-1891), Dartmouth College Class of 1836; 20th-century bookseller William Salloch; Swann sale, 18 September 1986, lot 284.