Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(BIBLE IN GREEK.) Possel, Johann, the Elder, translator. Evangelia et epistolae, quae diebus dominicis et festis sanctorum in ecclesia . . . proponi solent. 62 text woodcuts of Gospel scenes, with illustration on D6r partly tinted. [149] (of [150] leaves; lacks T1. 8vo, 156x93 mm, modern 1/4 morocco; contents evenly browned, minor restoration in blank margins of a few leaves, small hole and vertical paper crack in H8 affecting some letters, marginal doodle on L7r. Booklabel and mounted catalogue cutting of William Salloch on rear pastedown. Wittenberg: (Johannes Crato), 1572

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Greek verse translation of the liturgical Gospels and Epistles by a scholar who taught at Rostock. Adams B1874.