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Bible. Psalter. Polyglot
PSALTERIUM IN QUATUOR LINGUIS HEBRAEA GRAECA CHALDAEA LATINA [EDITED BY JOHANN POTKEN]. COLOGNE: [JOHANN POTKEN AND JOHANN SOTER], 10 JUNE 1518
Chancery folio (270 x 195mm.), title within arabesque woodcut border, Greek, Roman, Ethiopic and Hebrew types, three woodcut ornamental initals (Latin, Greek, Hebrew) for Psalm 1, without blank leaf &6, some manuscript annotations in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, late eighteenth-century English tree calf gilt, gilt monogram stamped on covers, flat spine gilt, red edges, green silk page marker, lacking final quire with the grammar of Hebrew, Greek and Ethiopic, title-page slightly soiled and repaired in gutter, a few stains, binding slightly rubbed, rebacked retaining most of original spine
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4,000
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6,000
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