Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(BIBLE IN GREEK.) He Kaine Diatheke. Novum Testamentum. [2], 648 [i. e., 646] pages, including engraved title; lacks the final blank. 8vo, 184x119 mm, 19th-century red morocco gilt, stamped SUNDERLAND COLLECTION on front cover, joints reinforced; occasional light dampstaining. Signatures of Anthony Fenton dated 1659; 19th-century armorial bookplate of Henry White; modern owner's inscription in Greek dated 1962. Cambridge: Thomas Buck, 1632

Additional Details

first cambridge edition of the Greek New Testament. Darlow & Moule 4678; STC 2796. Bound in front is a 1632 Barker and Bill edition of The Book of Common Prayer. Title within woodcut architectural border. [31] (of [52]) leaves; lacks C2, C4, C7, C8, D1, and 8-leaf gatherings E and F. Clean tears in A6-7. Griffiths 1632/4. At end is a 1632 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms, printed in double-column roman type with letterpress music in the text. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border. [10], 81, [5] pages. Last several leaves dampstained. STC 2637.