Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BIBLE IN GREEK.) He Kaine Diatheke. [2], 414, [2] leaves. Ruled in red throughout. 8vo, 160x100 mm, late 17th-century calf gilt, bottom of spine chipped, cover corners worn through; occasional marginal soiling, few marginalia. Ownership inscription of Tissot, "Sacerdos et Canonicus capellae Divitum de Divione," dated 1689; 19th-century monogram bookplate of Henri Joliet. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1534

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first colines edition, the first Greek New Testament printed in France, "the earliest attempt at a critical edition"--Darlow & Moule 4607. Schreiber (Colines) 110.