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Lot 274
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. HALL, Basil. The Great Polyglot Bibles: Including a Leaf from the Complutensian of Acalá, 1514-17. San Francisco: the Book Club of California, 1966.
Folio. Original polyglot leaf tipped in, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 6 ADDITIONAL LEAVES from the Complutensian of Acalá laid in; printed in red and black throughout. Loose as issued in original red handmade paper printed wrappers; original purple cloth folding case, printed paper labels on upper cover and spine.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 400 unnumbered copies, printed by the Allen Press. The 7 leaves from the Complutensian of Acalá comprise 5 text leaves, and 2 leaves including title and prologue to Part IV, with the arms of Cardinal Jimenez printed in red within a decorative woodcut border. Allen Press Bibliography 30.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation