May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra . . . accesserunt libri qui vulgo dicuntur Apocryphi . . . quibus etiam adjunximus Novi Testamenti libros. Translation by Immanuel Tremellius, Franciscus Junius, and Theodore Beza. [14], 212; 287, [1]; 247, [1]; 380; 182, [2(blank)]; [18], 3-336 pages; lacks 2I1.8 and 2I2.7 (I Kings 4:10-7:13 and 11:28-14:22) and blank 4A1. 6 parts in one volume. 4to, 211x162 mm, modern 1/2 plum morocco with black morocco lettering piece; contents toned with occasional marginal foxing and minor dampstaining, scattered early marginalia, general title soiled with old scored inscriptions, blank corner off a few leaves, 3A8 torn in upper outer corner with text loss, repaired clean tears across 4E4.5, hole through 4F5-7 affecting some text. London: Henry Middleton for J. H[arrison], 1581

Additional Details

Second edition of the first complete Latin Bible printed in England, substituting the Beza translation of the New Testament for the Tremellius version in the first edition printed the year before; issue with Middleton/Harrison imprint. Darlow & Moule 6166 note; STC 2057.