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Lot 4
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$6,000 -
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$17,500
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Lot Description
[BIBLE, in English]. The New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated faithfully into English. Translated from Latin into English by Gregory Martin, under the supervision of William Allen and Richard Brostow. Rheims: John Fogny, 1582.
4to (240 x 160 mm). Title printed within woodcut border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, numerous woodcut initials. (Minor soiling to title, a few small stains.) Modern blind-tooled calf; cloth folding case. Provenance: a few early marginal annotations.
FIRST EDITION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC VERSION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN ENGLISH, translated from the Vulgate by Gregory Martin under the supervision of William Allen (later Cardinal Allen) and Richard Bristow. “This Rheims New Testament exerted a very considerable influence on the version of 1611 King James version” (In Remembrance of Creation 206). Darlow & Moule 177; ESTC S102491; Pforzheimer 68; STC 2884. A TALL COPY.
Property from the Collection of LSC Communications, Inc.