Bibles
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1 [BIBLE, in Latin]. Biblia latina. Venice: Franz Renner of Hailbrun [Heilbrunn], 1483. 4to (213 x 147 mm). 476 leaves [complete]. Double column, 50 lines plus headline; 3- to 16-line initials supplied in red or blue; rubricated in red, capital strokes in red. (A few leaves with tiny holes or rust-holes touching letters.” Modern pigskin, title hand-lettered on bottom edge (lacking clasp). Provenance: early marginal annotations. One of the earliest printed bibles in a smaller, more convenient format, of which Franz Renner was the pioneer. These Bibles were among the first intended for private use. BMC V, 198; Darlow & Moule 6086; Goff B-578; GW 4253; HC 3089*. Property from the Collection of LSC Communications, Inc. $3,000 - 4,000
2 [BIBLE, in Latin]. Biblia. [Basel: Johann Amerbach or Freiburg: Kilian Fischer], 1491. Folio (305 x 206 mm). 406 (of 408) leaves, lacking first leaf (half-title) and final leaf (of the Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum). Double column and 4-column, 56 lines plus headline; first leaf with large initial “F”, 3- to 4-line initials supplied in red or blue. (Tiny wormholes touching letters throughout, some minor mostly marginal soiling or dampstaining to a few leaves.) Modern blind-panelled calf. BMC assigns to Fischer; Proctor and GW to Amerbach. BSB-Ink B-464; BMC III, 694; Goff B-590; GW 4267; HC 3108*; Pell 2330. Property from the Collection of LSC Communications, Inc. $2,000 - 3,000
3 [BIBLE, in English]. The New Testament of our Sauiour Iesus Christe, faithfully translated out of the Greke, with the notes and expositions of the darke places therein. London: Richard Jugge, [1566]. 4to in 8s (203 x 146 mm). Black letter, woodcut illustrations and initials. (Lacking title and the first 19 leaves [replaced in facsimile], additionally lacking leaves F3, F4, L1, and quire Qq, several leaves at beginning and end with marginal fraying affecting text and old repairs, map on Ii7 trimmed affecting the right margin, a few paper flaws or tiny holes, some minor soiling.) Contemporary blindstamped calf (rebacked and repaired); cloth folding case. Jugge’s third quarto edition of Tyndale’s version and the last of Tyndale’s New Testament. It contains more than one hundred woodcuts, some taken from earlier editions, while those of the Evangelists and St. Paul and the cuts in Revelation are new. Darlow & Moule 121; ESTC S122998; STC 2873. Property from the Collection of LSC Communications, Inc. $6,000 - 8,000
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