Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) Biblia sacra veteris et novi testamenti, juxta vulgatam editionem . . . emendata. Woodcut plate of the Garden of Eden; text illustrations; full-page map of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. [8], 435, [1]; 131 [i. e., 113], [26] (of [27]) leaves, including blank 2I4; lacks last index leaf. 8vo, 19th-century olive morocco gilt by Hering with Savile-Lumley arms on covers, joints and spine ends rubbed; margins trimmed affecting some headlines and sidenotes, scattered stains and ink blots or smudges not impairing legibility, preliminaries browned, early owner's crude pagination on contents leaf. Undated early ownership inscription of John Brewer; signature of John Savile dated 1666; Rufford Abbey bookplate. Geneva: Pierre de Saint-André, 1583

Additional Details

Reissue of the 1567 François Estienne edition of the Vulgate, with the preliminaries reset. Darlow & Moule 6169.