Dec 01, 2005 - Sale 2059

Sale 2059 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ENGLISH.) The Bible; that is, The Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament. Additional general and New Testament titles within woodcut historiated border showing the Tribes of Israel, the Evangelists, and the Apostles; illustrations and maps in text. [4], 190; 127, [1]; 121; [11] leaves, including blank 2Q8. 4to, old panelled calf with brass catches, lacks clasps, rebacked, noticeable aroma of tobacco; marginal soiling and minor spotting, scattered ink scrawls, L3.4 folded backward. 18th-century handwritten family register on front endpapers. London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599 [i. e., Amsterdam: Jan Fredricksz Stam, circa 1633?]

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Geneva-Tomson version with the Junius revision of Revelation, "probably printed at Amsterdam for the use of English Puritans in the Low Countries" (Herbert). Without the Apocrypha, as usual. Herbert 249. Bound with an undated contemporary edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms, without imprint but possibly also printed in Amsterdam by Stam. [56] leaves (A-G8). Roman type, double columns, with letterpress music.