Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 12,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(BIBLE IN GREEK AND LATIN.) Novum testamentum omne, tertio iam ac diligentius ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum. Greek text with Latin translation by Desiderius Erasmus, followed by his Annotationes bound separately. NT title within woodcut historiated border by Ambrosius Holbein; other woodcut borders, ornaments, and initials by Urs Graf. [68], 562, [2]; [8], 629, [1] pages. Some use of Hebrew type. 2 volumes. Folio, 330x222 mm, later 18th-century tree sheep with later shelf labels, Volume 1 spine chipped at top, Volume 2 spine ends damaged, front joint cracked, cords intact; occasional minor marginal soiling and stains, Volume 1 with single small wormhole through blank outer margin of opening leaves, early owner's annotations on page 350, and repair to edges of last 2 leaves. 19th-century bookplates of Andover Theological Seminary. wide-margined set. (Basel: Johann Froben, 1522; February 1522)

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third edition of the new testament in greek, edited with Latin translation and commentary by Erasmus. "It formed the basis of the New Testament translations of both Luther and Tyndale and hence had profound influence on later Protestant versions of the Bible"--Printing and the Mind of Man 46 (1516 original edition). Adams B1681; Darlow & Moule 4599 (this edition).