Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Text of the New Testament . . . Translated out of the Vulgar Latine by the Papists of the Seminarie at Rhemes . . . Whereunto is added the Translation out of the Original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England. Edited by William Fulke. [22] (of [23]), 496, [5] leaves; lacks the title (facsimile laid in). Folio, 261x193 mm, modern 1/2 calf; numerous small wormholes through most of volume generally not impairing legibility, occasional minor marginal dampstaining, few cropped early marginalia, blank lower outer corner off 3Q4, paper flaw in upper outer corner of 4S1, last leaf rehinged with stain in lower outer corner. London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1589

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first fulke edition, giving the Bishops' version and the Rheims New Testament in parallel columns, "the first systematic and comprehensive attempt to refute the arguments and accusations contained in the Rheims New Testament of 1582"--Herbert 202.