May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) Biblia integra. [498] (of [508]) leaves; lacks AA1.8 and BB in 8 (title and 9 other preliminaries, including woodcut of St. Jerome). Gothic type. 8vo, 145x105 mm, 19th-century blind-stamped black morocco; margins trimmed, slightly entering text of some sidenotes and leaves in glossary of Hebrew names at end, scattered mostly minor stains, repaired clean tears across A4 and blank ²A1, blank lower margin of U1 restored, last leaf repaired in blank outer margin, with soiling and old inscriptions on verso. 19th-century armorial bookplate of Thomas Munro. (Basel: Johann Froben, 27 October 1495)

Additional Details

Second edition of the first Bible in octavo format, first printed by Froben in 1491. GW 4275; BMC III, 791; Goff B598; ISTC ib00598000.