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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
EARLIEST SURVIVING IRISH EDITION The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, old calf, rebacked, corners restored, endpapers renewed; foxing throughout, often severe, scattered stains, marginal tears and restoration occasionally affecting text, first 10 and last 5 leaves torn and silked with extensive text loss, lacks C2 (Genesis 15:1-18:5), contemporary manuscript register of the Maycock family on last leaf of Apocrypha and verso of New Testament title (both leaves silked). Dublin: A. Rhames for William Binauld and Eliphal Dobson, 1714
earliest extant edition of the king james version printed in ireland. "No copy of an Irish edition . . . before that printed by Rhames in 1714 is know to survive"--Herbert 928.
