BIBLE IN GREEK NEW TESTAMENT Novum Jesu Christi DN Testamen

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(BIBLE IN GREEK. NEW TESTAMENT.) Novum Jesu Christi D.N. Testamentum. [32], 272, 202, [2] pages. Folio, 329x220 mm, 17th-century English red morocco gilt-tooled to panel design, spine darkened, worn at top, joints cracked, cords intact, small area abraded on front cover; free endpapers toned, front free endpaper loose, title soiled, trimmed slightly along top and bottom edges and mounted, contents otherwise immaculate. From the library of Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753), with his distinctive leather label at the top of the spine. Paris: Robertus Stephanus, 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.