Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 1,820
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Bible; that is, The Holy Scriptures, conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament. Woodcut plate of the Temple; double-page woodcut map of the eastern Mediterranean; text illustrations and maps. [5] (of [6]), 360; 76; [2], 115, [11] leaves; lacks the general title (replaced in facsimile). 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 261x177 mm, early 19th-century calf, quite worn; marginal soiling through much of volume, marginal dampstaining on opening leaves, accession and shelf numbers on verso of facsimile title, preliminaries and first 2 leaves of Genesis crudely remargined with some words supplied in manuscript, some headlines cropped, scattered ink blots and other stains, blank lower portion of last leaf in Malachi torn off and restored, later owner's notes on verso of NT title showing through on recto, folding plate and map dampstained, unevenly trimmed and reinforced on verso, with a few words supplied in ink at bottom. London: Christopher Barkar [sic], 1577

Additional Details

Geneva version. Herbert 148; Luborsky & Ingram/STC 2119. Bound with 1576 John Day edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms, printed in double-column roman type with letterpress music in text (lacking all after F2).