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(BIBLE IN GREEK.) Novum Testamentum Graecum. Edited by John Mills and Ludwig Kuster. [20], 168; [2], 632 pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 357x236 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century leather, worn, joints cracked, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; contents lightly dampwrinkled with occasional toning, small wormhole in blank gutter of preliminaries, dampstain in blank outer margin of canon tables and opening leaves of Matthew. Signature of John Merrick of St. John's College, Oxford, on front free endpaper. Amsterdam & Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, 1710
First edition of Kuster's revision of the 1707 Mills New Testament, "a great advance on any of its predecessors, as Mills added to it a critical apparatus containing the readings of nearly 100 MSS." (ODCC). Darlow & Moule 4735 (1723 edition).
