Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 247
  • 247

(Digby, Sir Kenelm)

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6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • (Digby, Sir Kenelm)
  • Biblia Sacra Vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max... Rome: Typographia Apostolica Vaticana, 1593
  • Ink, paper and cow
4to (9 1/4 x 7 in.; 233 x 170 mm.). Text in Latin, title in red and black letters, 3 pages of manuscript table at the end of the volume. Repair at the inner margin of title page. Seventeenth-century French brown morocco, gilt arms of Kenelm and Venetia Digby. Very slightly rubbed but excellent condition. 

Provenance

Sir Kenelm and Venetia Digby (armorial binding and autograph Latin motto on title) — Claude Henri Le Pelletier de la Houssaye (signature on title page, dated 1714). acquisition: H.D. Lyon

Catalogue Note

Pristine copy from Kenelm and Venetia Digby's library with his arms and rare latin motto: "Vacate et videte."