May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?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. General and New Testament titles within woodcut historiated border showing the Evangelists, Apostles, and arms of the 12 Tribes of Israel. Mostly printed in black letter. 4to, 208x164 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century panelled calf; dampstaining in upper inner corner of opening leaves, general title heavily foxed and mounted, mostly moderate marginal foxing elsewhere, Genealogies bound between table of contents and first page of Genesis, last leaf of Revelation mounted, 19th-century newspaper cuttings mounted on front flyleaves. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1619 [NT title dated 1620]

Additional Details

King James version. Herbert 374. Bound with an undated edition of the Genealogies, complete with the map; a 1619 Barker and Bill edition of Herrey's Concordance, with margins trimmed close, occasionally entering text, and the title page mounted; and a 1619 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms, printed in double-column black letter with letterpress music in the text, lacking the last 9 leaves.