Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
La Liturgie Angloise. Title within woodcut border incorporating royal arms, allegorical figures of Faith and Humility, and symbols of the Evangelists; numerous woodcut historiated and ornamental initials. [271] (of [272]) leaves; lacks the final blank. 4to, 225x164 mm, 17th-century panelled calf with brass catches and clasps, rebacked, covers varnished, endpapers conspicuously renewed; dampstaining in upper margins throughout, soiling and light foxing on opening leaves. London: John Bill, 1616

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first edition of the second version in French, for use in the Channel Islands, translated from the 1604 Hampton Court prayer book. A French translation of the 1552 prayer book of King Edward VI was published in 1553. Griffiths 36/2; GTS/But One Use 67; STC 16431.

bound with: The Book of Common Prayer. [60] leaves, including final blank. Title soiled. Cambridge: Printers to the Universitie, 1635. Griffiths 635/1.

and: The New Testament. Title within woodcut historiated border showing the Tribes of Israel, the Evangelists, and the Apostles. [114] leaves. Dampstaining in upper and lower margins. London: Robert Barker and the Assigns of John Bill, 1633 [colophon dated 1634]. Third part of an edition of the King James version. Herbert 486.

and: The Booke of Psalmes, collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. Printed in 2 columns in roman type with letterpress music in text. [2], 114, [12] pages. London: J. L. for the Company of Stationers, 1636. STC 2663.