Bible, edited by Erasmus, Zurich, 1547, later half leather

Bible. New Testament

Novi Testamenti aeditio postrema, per Des. Erasmum Roterodamum. Omnia picturis illustrata. Zurich: Froschauer, 1547

8vo (145 x 98mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations, early annotations, nineteenth-century half calf, lacking a8 and L6, small tear at foot of A4 with slight loss, joints cracked

Eramus's text has been edited here by the Zurich preacher Rudolf Gwalter who was Zwingli's son-in-law, putting this edition firmly in the context of the Reformation in Zurich.

LITERATURE:

USTC 678599; VD16 B 4273

PROVENANCE:

Florentius Nicolai, early inscriptions on title-page; D.L. Cumming, signature on flyleaf