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Lot 26
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$200 -
300
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$625
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Lot Description
[BIBLES - FACSIMILES] A group of 5 Bibles in facsimile, comprising:
The First Printed English New Testament…Photo-lithographed From the Unique Fragment Now in the Grenville Collection, British Museum. London: n.p. 1871. -- Facsimile of the Bay Psalm Book. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1905. One of 1,000 copies. -- A second copy. One of 975 copies on plain paper. -- The Holy Bible, A Facsimile on a Reduced Size of the Authorized Version Published in the Year 1611. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1911. -- JOHNSON, Henry Lewis. Gutenberg and the Book of Books. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1932. One of 750 copies. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, folio or smaller, all in publisher’s cloth or cloth-backed boards, condition generally good.
Property from the Collection of LSC Communications, Inc.
