Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The New Testament of Jesus Christ translated faithfully into English. Title within type ornament border; woodcut historiated and ornamental initials throughout. [28], 745, [25] (of [27]) pages; lacks penultimate leaf 5E1 from Table of Controversies. 4to, 211x155 mm, late 17th-/early 18th-century panelled calf with later leather lettering piece, binding slightly cocked, short crack at bottom of front joint and top of rear joint, hinges reinforced; margins trimmed entering some headlines but not otherwise affecting text, intermittent marginal dampstaining, occasional heavy soiling, repairable clean tears across B2.3 and 3I4 not impairing legibility, dark stains on Q1, 3B4, and 4Z3-4, worming in outer margin of approximately the last 40 leaves affecting some sidenotes. Early 18th-century owners' signatures and inscriptions on front endleaves; old catalogue cutting mounted on rear free endpaper. Rheims: John Fogny, 1582

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first edition of the Roman Catholic version of the New Testament in English. Herbert 177; STC 2883.