Mar 11, 2004 - Sale 2000

Sale 2000 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 2,070
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ENGLISH.) The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke. General and New Testament titles within woodcut historiated border showing the Tribes of Israel, the Evangelists, and the Apostles. [2], 435 [i. e., 434]; [4], 441-554; 22, [2] leaves. Black letter. 4to, 227x166 mm, remboîtage of 16th-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with brass bosses, catches, and clasps, and 19th-century calf spine, rebacked; large black smudge on blank page facing general title. Vellum communion certificate dated 1775 mounted on front endpaper. Armorial bookplate of William Fitzroy, Duke of Cleveland. London: Robert Bakker [sic], 1607

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Geneva version, with the 1600 London edition of Junius's Revelation inserted at the end. Herbert 290, 261. Also bound in are 1607 Barker editions of The Book of Common Prayer (with title and next 3 leaves trimmed and inlaid to size) and Herrey's Concordance, and a 1607 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms, with letterpress music in the text.