Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament and the New. Full-page woodcut of the Garden of Eden on A10v. [15] (instead of [10]), 404; 507, [1] leaves, including engraved general title, New Testament title within historiated woodcut border, final blank, and 5 extraneous preliminary leaves: double-page map from the Genealogies (see below), and calendar, Proper Lessons, and Almanacke from another edition of the Bible or a Book of Common Prayer. Ruled in red throughout. Folio, 330x215 mm, modern panelled calf; contents dampwrinkled, some light marginal dampstaining, occasional minor marginal restoration not affecting text. 18th-/19th-century manuscript genealogy of the Homer family of Warwickshire on 2 silked leaves bound in front. London: Robert Barker and the Assigns of John Bill, 1632 [altered in ink to 1633]
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Authorized version. Herbert 466; STC 2298.5. Bound with an edition circa 1632 of the Genealogies (STC 23039a.4), but with the woodcut map of the holy land inserted after the engraved title of the Bible, and a 1632 edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms with letterpress music (STC 2633), lacking the last 4 leaves.