May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) Biblia sacra veteris & novi testamenti iuxta vulgatam. Edited by Jean Benoist. [14], 888; 235, [112] pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 389x262 mm, early 19th-century sheep, worn, spine darkened, with shelf label, joints cracked, cords intact; marginal dampstaining through most of volume, numerous small wormholes at beginning and end not generally impairing legibility, title and last index leaf trimmed and mounted, remaining preliminaries and some index leaves remargined, heavy soiling on pages 676-77; institutional bookplate. Signature of Joseph S. Ropes dated St. Petersburg, 1841. Paris: (Benedictus Praevotius for) heirs of Charlotte Guillard, 1558

Additional Details

Darlow & Moule 6141. For a 15th-century edition of the Vulgate see lot 112.