Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 1,105
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Bible; that is, The Holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament. Woodcut text illustrations and maps, including full-page depiction of the Garden of Eden on ¶4v. [4], 444; 135, [7] leaves, including engraved general title. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 298x204 mm, 17th-century sheep, spine ends chipped, joints cracked and reinforced, free endpapers conspicuously renewed; margins trimmed entering borders on general title and Garden of Eden woodcut, preliminaries unevenly trimmed along bottom edges and restored in lower inner corners with slight image or text loss, accession and shelf numbers on verso of general title, intermittent marginal soiling, scattered stains, few text passages retraced in ink on D5r, lower outer corner off T6 and Y1 with substantial text loss, clean tears across the full width of 2F4 and 3G3, scattered partly repaired shorter clean tears elsewhere, 4F4 torn in outer margin and restored with loss to sidenotes, portion of blank lower margin torn off 4H1. Ownership inscription of Timothy Cartwright dated 1655 on verso of NT title; bookplate of John Howell. London: Robert Barker, (1607)

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Geneva-Tomson-Junius version. Herbert 289.