Mar 11, 2004 - Sale 2000

Sale 2000 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(LATIN. NEW TESTAMENT.) [Novum Testamentum.] 211, [1]; [4], 155, [17] leaves, including blank 2d4. Ruled in red throughout. 8vo, 18th-century red morocco gilt, joints cracked. Extraneous engraving of the Crucifixion by [Charles?] Le Brun tipped in opposite title. Paris: Stephanus, 1541

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"The first separate edition of the New Testament printed by Robert Estienne . . . This edition incurred the censure of the Theological Faculty of Paris on account of the allegedly heretical tendency of some of Robert's marginal notes"--Schreiber 66.