Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 650
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata. Title within woodcut architectural border, with vignettes of Abraham and Isaac, St. Jerome in his study, and Cain and Abel; over 600 text woodcuts after Hans Holbein, Bernard Salomon, and Pierre Eskrich. [24], 1126 pages; lacks last leaf (colophon or blank?). 4to, 203x151 mm, modern vellum boards, somewhat soiled and discolored, spine faded, endpapers renewed; scattered dark stains, several sheets browned, occasional mostly marginal soiling, foxing, and minor stains, title torn in outer and lower margins with slight loss to border and mounted, few marginalia. Venice: (Altobello Salicato for) heirs of Niccolò Bevilacqua, 1574

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Venetian reprint of the 1547 Louvain Vulgate, with illustrations derived largely from woodcuts used in various Lyons editions from 1538 to 1562; cf. Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 62.