Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke. Titles within woodcut historiated border showing the Tribes of Israel, the Evangelists, and the Apostles. [2], 435 [i. e., 434], [3]; [1], 441-554 leaves. Mostly printed in black letter. 4to, 19th-century panelled calf, worn, rear cover detached; margins trimmed affecting some headlines, contents soiled, some stains and early marginalia, repairs in outer corners of several leaves with varying text loss, burn hole through text in upper outer corner of I1, K7-8 (Deuteronomy 19:7-24:17) torn out. London: Robert Barker, 1608 [New Testament title dated 1610]

Additional Details

Geneva-Tomson-Junius version; apparently Herbert 295 (Old Testament/Apocrypha) and 303 (New Testament) bound together. Also bound in are a 1608 Barker edition of Herrey''s Concordance (STC 13232), lacking C8, and a 1610 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical Psalms, printed in black letter with letterpress music in text (STC 2533.5), lacking last 17 leaves.