Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The New Testament of Jesus Christ faithfully translated into English . . . By the English College then Resident in Rhemes. Title within type-ornament border. [36], 745, [27] pages. 4to, early 19th-century diced russia attractively gilt with interlacing rectangle and rhomb on covers, neatly rebacked retaining original backstrip; some headlines and sidenotes shaved, minor paper corrosion along fore edge of first few leaves, vertical crease in title slightly obscuring some letters, small piece torn out of B2 outer margin affecting a couple of letters in sidenote on recto. Bodleian Library stamp on title verso (released). Antwerp: Daniel Vervliet, 1600

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Second edition of the Roman Catholic version of the New Testament in English, originally published in 1582 in Rheims. Herbert 258; STC 2898.