Lot 134
  • 134

Bible in Spanish

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • La Biblia. Que es, Los Sacros Libros del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento. Segunda Edicion. Revista y conferida con los textos Hebreos y Griegos y con diversas translaciones. Por Cypriano de Valera. Amsterdam: Lorenço Iacobi, 1602
  • ink,paper,leather
Folio (12 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.; 311 x 197mm). Woodcut device on title, leaf addressing the Northern Provinces and Maurice of Nassau inserted after title, text in 2 columns; title with light finger-soiling, but generally a clean, crisp copy.  Seventeenth-century mottled calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments; rubbed.

Literature

Darlow & Moule 8475

Condition

condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Catalogue Note

Second edition of the first complete Bible in Spanish, translated by Cassiodoro de Reina, which originally appeared in Basel in 1569.