Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(MINIATURE BOOK.) Novum Testamentum Graecum. Greek text. Engraved frontispiece after the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. [8], 511, [9] pages, including half-title and 4 leaves of ads at end. 48mo, 85x50 mm, later light green morocco; light dampstain in upper outer corner of frontispiece. Ownership inscription of Henry Louis Creswell dated 1860. wide-margined copy. London: (C. Corrall for) William Pickering, 1828

Additional Details

first pickering edition, "the smallest Greek Testament ever published"--Darlow & Moule 4816. Bondy, page 89; Spielmann 386.