Lot 79
  • 79

Bible in Greek. New Testament

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • [Graece] Tes kaines diathekes apanta. Novi Testamenti Libri Omnes. London: ex officina Rogeri Danielis, 1652
  • paper
8vo (5 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.; 145 x 82 mm). Typographic ornament on title; some light soiling. Contemporary calf elaborately but quaintly blind-tooled in a cottage-roof design enclosing a checkerboard of nine squares tooled with simple flowers (some in vases) on hatched or cross-hatched grounds, spine hatched with double-floral stamps repeated in six compartments, small gilt dentelles, edges gilt; joints and corners mended.

Provenance

acquisition: Patrick King, 1996

Literature

Wing B2730; ESTC R36656

Condition

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Catalogue Note

A charming binding in an unusual style.