May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. [14], 1456, [20] pages, including engraved general title. Folio, 451x293 mm, modern brown morocco; dampstaining in lower margin of opening leaves and in lower outer corners toward end, minor repair in lower outer corner of 2H1 and 4C2 affecting a few letters on the latter, 4I4.5 probably supplied from another copy with lower margins restored entering catchwords, still an attractive copy overall; burgundy morocco slipcase. 19th-century manuscript family register on front flyleaf. London: Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1701

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King James lectern Bible. "In this edition the date of the Nativity is taken as the central event in history, and--apparently for the first time in any English Bible--the years are reckoned as either 'Before Christ' or 'Anno Domini' "--Herbert 868.