Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata. Title within woodcut architectural border, with vignettes of Abraham and Isaac, St. Jerome in his study, and Cain and Abel; over 600 text woodcuts after Hans Holbein, Bernard Salomon, and Pierre Eskrich. [24], 1126 pages; lacks last leaf (blank or with device?). 4to, modern blind-stamped sheep, rubbed, spine faded, bottom department cracked and discolored; occasional foxing or browning and marginal soiling, preliminaries rehinged, early owner's signature in lower margin of title. Venice: (Altobello Salicato for) Damiano Zenaro, 1599

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Venetian reprint of the 1547 Louvain Vulgate, with illustrations derived largely from woodcuts used in various Lyons editions from 1538 to 1562; cf. Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 62.