Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 275

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(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, the Apostles, and the arms of the 12 Tribes. Mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 395x262 mm, old open-backed sewn boards, heavily worn, with contents loose at beginning and end; preliminaries and last several leaves frayed and darkened along edges, minor dampstaining in lower outer corners in middle of volume, some light marginal dampstaining at end, diagonal clean tear across 3C1, 3O1 torn in outer corners and 6D5 in lower outer corner, both with text loss, few other marginal tears not affecting text, lacks preliminary leaf A4 (from translators' preface) and final leaf 6D6 (end of Revelation). London: Robert Barker, 1617

Additional Details

"The third distinct folio edition, printed in large black-letter, of King James's version"--Herbert 353. With an undated edition of The Genealogies, badly frayed with occasional text loss and lacking the map.