Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
Bible, English, King James Version.
The Holy Bible Conteyning the Old Testament and the New.

London: Printed by Robert Barker by the Assignes of John Bill, 1632.



Folio, engraved title page, bound with The Genealogies Recorded in Sacred Scriptures; including the Apocrypha and a 1632 Sternhold/Hopkins edition of the Psalms lacking final four index leaves (K5-K8); the Bible with five extraneous preliminary leaves, i.e., calendar, Proper Lessons, and Almanacke from another edition of the Bible or a Book of Common Prayer; woodcut double-page map meant to accompany the Genealogies titled, Description of Canaan bound with the Bible, full-page woodcut of the Garden of Eden and separate title page for New Testament present; ruled in red throughout; bound in full modern leather; date on title page altered in ink to read 1633, 18th and 19th century family notes on front flyleaves (reinforced); Description of Canaan reinforced, some faint mottled discoloration to fore-edge margins;13 x 8 1/2 in.

Bible: ESTC S122379; Darlow & Moule 359; STC 2298.5; Herbert 466 Geneaologies ESTC S126191; STC 23039a.4; Psalms ESTC S122383; STC 2633.