Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
MARTIN, GREGORY. A Discovery of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures by the Heretikes of our daies, specially the English Sectaries, and of their foule dealing herein, by partial & false translations to the advantage of their heresies . . . since the time of Schisme. [28], 322, [5] pages. 8vo, 148x98 mm, disbound; dampstaining in lower outer corners throughout, title soiled, chipped and loose, with St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp, early inscription inked out on page 322. Rheims: John Fogny, 1582

Additional Details

first edition. Martin (1542?-82) produced the first Roman Catholic translation of the Vulgate into English (see lots 30-32). STC 17503.