Apr 25, 2002 - Sale 1933

Sale 1933 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 805
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIBLE IN GREEK. NEW TESTAMENT. GOSPELS-ACTS.) He Kaine Diatheke. Part 1 (of 2): Gospels-Acts. [2], 233, [1] leaves, the last leaf blank. Ruled in red throughout. 8vo, contemporary blind-tooled calf, rebacked; early inscriptions on title and final blank, horizontal stain across o1. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1534

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"The first Greek Testament printed in France, representing 'the earliest attempt at a critical edition' (Darlow & Moule). The editor is believed to have been Colines himself . . . The edition is also typographically important, marking the first use of Colines's second Greek font"--Schreiber (Colines) 110. Darlow & Moule 4608; Harvard/Mortimer-French 67.<