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(BIBLE IN SPANISH.) La Biblia. Que es, Los Sacros Libros del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento. Edited by Cipriano de la Valera. [12], 268 [i. e., 269]; 67, 88, [1] leaves. Folio, 315x202 mm, modern mottled calf, covers slightly warped; title soiled, torn and restored in blank upper margin and lower outer corner, scattered light dampstains, repaired clean tear in outer margin of O4, hole in last leaf repaired with slight text loss. From the collection of Alfonso Cassuto. Amsterdam: Lorenço Iacobi, 1602
Second edition of the first complete Bible in Spanish, translated by Cassiodoro de Reina, which originally appeared in Basel in 1569. This is also the first complete edition of Valera's revision of the Reina translation, of which the New Testament had appeared separately in 1596. Darlow & Moule 8475 (noting leaf found in some copies addressing the Northern Provinces and Maurice of Nassau, not present here).
