Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BIBLE IN GREEK.) Novum Jesu Christi D.N. Testamentum. [32], 272; 202, [2] pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 342x235 mm, old calf, spine defective, cover corners damaged; vertical creases in title and next leaf, repairable clean tears in both, occasional light marginal foxing or soiling, scattered minor stains, marginal chapter numbering in the Gospels in ink in later hand, diagonal creases in last several leaves. 19th-century bookplate of Andover Theological Seminary. Paris: Robertus Stephanus, (July 16) 1550

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The sumptuous 'Editio Regia,' the third and most important Estienne edition of the Greek Testament. It is the first edition of the Greek New Testament to contain a critical apparatus . . . The text of this edition became standard for over two centuries, especially in England . . . This is universally recognized as the best-known and most influential of Robert Estienne's works"--Schreiber 105. Adams B1661; Darlow & Moule 4622; Harvard/Mortimer-French 78.