Mar 11, 2004 - Sale 2000

Sale 2000 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 1,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ENGLISH. NEW TESTAMENT.) The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the newe testament. Titles within woodcut historiated border. [1] (of [20]), 608, [27] (of [28]) leaves; lacks the preliminaries after the title, and the last (blank or colophon?) leaf. Folio, 310x200 mm, old leather over wooden boards, binding broken, with contents loose, title attached to front cover and last several index leaves to rear cover; marginal dampstaining on opening leaves, title soiled, with outer corners crudely reinforced on verso, insignificant worming in blank outer margins toward end, crude marginal restoration in outer margin of last several index leaves causing some text loss. sold as is. London: Edward Whitchurch, 1551

Additional Details

Second edition of an English translation of Erasmus's Latin paraphrase in black letter, together with the text of the Great Bible version of the New Testament in roman type, that was first published in 1548-49. The first volume contains Matthew-Acts. Herbert 73 note.