Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
The Bible, that is, The holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and New Testament. Additional general and New Testament titles within woodcut historiated border showing the Evangelists, the Apostles, and the arms of the 12 Tribes of Israel; woodcut illustrations and maps in text. [4], 190; 127, [1]; 121, [11] leaves, including blank 2Q8. 3 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary brown morocco lavishly gilt-tooled to center-and-corner design made up of volutes and small ornamental tools on covers, flat spine with panel of vertically arranged ornamental lozenges, chipped at bottom, lacking catches and clasps; occasional marginal soiling and minor dampstains, 3N7 torn in lower margin affecting a few words. London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599 [i. e., Amsterdam: Jan Fredricksz Stam, 1639?]

Additional Details

Geneva-Tomson-Junius version, "probably printed at Amsterdam for the use of English Puritans in the Low Countries" (Herbert). Without the Apocrypha, as usual. Herbert 253; STC 2179. Bound with 1636 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical Psalms with letterpress music (STC 2663).