Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, conteyning the Olde Testament and the Newe. Full-page woodcut of the Garden of Eden; woodcut maps of the Holy Land and eastern Mediterranean. [10] (of [12]), 562 leaves, lacking first leaf of Prologue, with T3.4 (Ruth 1:1-1 Samuel 1:28) supplied from another copy, and with general and NT titles and 5B2.3 (Revelation 16:10-22:3) supplied in facsimiles of varying quality. Mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 391x245 mm, contemporary leather over wooden boards with brass catches, centerpieces, and 5 (of 8) cornerpieces, lacking clasps, rebacked, missing portions of leather from covers, endpapers renewed; contents browned with marginal soiling and occasional dampstaining, preliminary leaves bound out of order, torn along edges with slight text loss to one, each backed with tissue not impairing visibility of text or Garden of Eden woodcut, repaired clean tears in E3 and 2C3, last leaf of 2 Maccabees torn at bottom and crudely mounted affecting only woodcut tailpiece, portions torn off 4G1 and 4K5 with slight text loss, 5B1 rehinged, last leaf torn in lower outer corner and mounted with slight loss to colophon. London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595

Additional Details

Bishops' version. Herbert 227; Luborsky & Ingram 2167.