Dec 02, 2004 - Sale 2025

Sale 2025 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 3,220
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(ENGLISH. NEW TESTAMENT.) The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase upon the newe testamente. Volume 1 (of 2). 126 [i. e,. 127 (of 128)]; 98; 200; 123 (of 124); 90 leaves; lacks the blanks D7 and 3P12. Black letter. Folio, 256x182 mm, later 18th-century tree calf, rebacked; margins trimmed close affecting some headlines and side notes, scattered cropped marginalia and scrawls, marginal dampstaining in first half of volume, few leaves in Luke possibly supplied. London: Edward Whitchurch, 1548

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First published the same year, an English translation of Erasmus's Latin paraphrase of the New Testament, together with the text of the Great Bible version. The first volume contains Matthew-Acts. Devereux, Renaissance English Translations of Erasmus 26.4.6; this edition not in Herbert.