Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) Biblia sacra veteris & novi testamenti iuxta vulgatam. Edited by Jean Benoît. [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, title in ink on top edges. Signature of Joseph S. Ropes dated St. Petersburg 1841; bookplate of Andover Newton Theological Seminary (Ropes gift, dated 1875). Darlow & Moule 6141. Paris: (Benoît Prevost for) heirs of Charlotte Guillard, 1558