Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/454
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2985 Biblia cum glossis ordinarijs : et interlinearibus . . . cum expositione Nicolai de Lyra, vol .I-III, gothic letter, woodcuts, lacks the latter part of the old Testament, and the New Testament, with colophon, half-bound [Hain *3174 ; Proctor 5170 | folio. (Venice, P. de Paganinis, 1495) 2986 Bible. Cranmer. The Byble in Englishe, that is to saye, The content of al the holy Scripture .. . . black letter, wants 2 titles, calendar (6ll.) and 6ll. at end (supplied in facsimile), some ll. stained, old calf, gilt centre-pieces (rebacked) 4to. N. Hyll, 1552 *..* A note in the autograph of Francis Fry is pasted inside the front cover, stating that only one perfect copy of this edition is known (the Cambridge copy). 2987 Bible, with the Psalms in Metre, wants several ll. and some ll. damaged, original binding of dark blue morocco, sides gold tooled with oval leaves and arches filled with dots forming a panel enclosing a vertical stem with horizontal curving branches, 8vo, Edinburgh, J. Basket, 1726; and another 8vo. (2) 2988 Bible. Irish. Leabhuir . . . The Books of the Old [and the New] Testament translated into Irish by W. Bedel and W. O’Dombnuill, 2 vol. in 1, calf 4to. 1685 *.* The first Irish Bible. 2989 Bible. French. La Bible qui est toute la Saincte escrip- ture, gothic letter, dowble columns, first leaf slightly defective and mended, several ll. stained, a few headlines shaved, printer’s device at end, green morocco, g.e., by W. Pratt, VERY RARE folio. Neufchasteil par Pierre de Wingle dict Pirot picard, 1535 *.* The first French Protestant Bible. 2990 Bible. Italian. Bibia Volgare laquale in se contiene i sacrosanti libri del vecchio et nuovo Testamento, roman letter, double columns, woodcuts, vellum Ato. Venetia, 1566 2991 Bible Illustrations. Figure del Vecchio Testamento, con versi Toscani per D. Maraffi, portrait, woodcuts by le Petit Bernard, vellum 8vo. In Inone, per G. di Tournes, 1554 2992 Bible Illustrations. Wol gerissnen und geschnidten figuren Ausz der Bibel, 149 woodcuts by le Petit Bernard, brown morocco gilt, g. €. 8vo. Zu Lyon, durch Hans Tornesius, 1554 *,* FIRST GERMAN EDITION.
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