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1569R53<p><strong>Description: </strong>Quarto approx. 7" x 5.5". Lacks all before Exodus 11:8. Text in two column black letter. Full-page woodcut of the Tabernacle F1 Table H3. Title before Joshua with large woodcut of Jugge's device. Full-page Map of Canaan Q1. Printed title to the Apocrypha. Map of the Holy Land before Matthew. 1 Corinthians 7 – Revelation 22 shorted and inserted from an octavo Geneva Bible.</p><p><strong>Collation:</strong> E-Z8 Aa-Kk6 A-X8 Y4 Aaa-Mmm8 Nnn6 A-K8 -A1. Begins at E1 Exodus 11:8 and ends at K8 Romans 15. <strong>Lacks</strong> title before Psalms and New Testament title. </p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Rebacked brown calf. Boards with brown blind-paneled calf and corner fleurons. Two later working clasps. Spine with four blind-lined raised bands and a red gilt-lined morocco label with the words "The Holi Bible" and a date of 1569 lettered in gilt. </p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> Rubbed; intermittent staining; six ff. with marginal closed tears; T6 1 Sam 20 upper piece torn with six lines of text loss; Gg-Hh stain to half of text; D4 Ps 91 half of text torn away; A in NT with frayed edges; B6 lower corner loss of four lines of text. </p><p><strong>Provenance:</strong> Note to front pastedown reads "H.M. This is the 2nd edition of the Bible printed in 4to by R. Jugge the Queen's printer in 1569. This is the 2nd edition of Parker's Bible the 1st edition was a splendid folio in 1568. See Lewis' hist. of the Bible."</p><p><strong>Note:</strong> The first edition of the Bishops' Bible printed in quarto format. This smaller edition was printed just one year after the impressive first folio enabling the clergy to study from this version in their homes. The first quarto retains a few full-page woodcuts in the text. USTC records 13 copies in holdings.</p><p><strong>References:</strong> Herbert 126; STC 2105.</p> Richard Jugge hardcover
1509372247Basel: per Johannem Petri de Langdorff et Johannem Froben de Hammelburg 1509. Printer's device on title hand colored at an early date. Large manuscript initials in red and blue; rubricated throughout. 14 CCCXLVII 28 leaves. Manuscript references and extensive early marginalia in Hebrew in O.T.; citations in Table keyed to N.T. and underlined. Contemporary colored deerskin sectional fore-edge tabs. Folio 13 x 8-1/2 inches. Full burgundy morocco by Zaehnsdorf. Title leaf repaired at gutter and bottom corner; minor staining. Printer's device on title hand colored at an early date. Large manuscript initials in red and blue; rubricated throughout. 14 CCCXLVII 28 leaves. Manuscript references and extensive early marginalia in Hebrew in O.T.; citations in Table keyed to N.T. and underlined. Contemporary colored deerskin sectional fore-edge tabs. Folio 13 x 8-1/2 inches. A scarce Latin bible the first edition of the Vulgate with the printed marginal references to canon law. These 'Concordantiae iuris canonici' according to Masch were compiled by Johannes Niuicellensis an abbot and were printed separately in 1482. This is also the first edition to printed the commendatory hexastich by Matthias Sambucellus on the title page beginning: "Emendata magis scaturit nunc biblia tota."<br /> <br /> A tall copy with generous margins lovely stylish manuscript initials and full rubrication. VD16 B2584. Delaveau & Hillard 771; cf. Darlow & Moule note after 6092. Provenance: Dr. Charles Clay Manchester 19th century inscription on front endpaper sold Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge May 18 1883; General Theological Seminary bookplate blindstamps; [per Johannem Petri de Langdorff et Johannem Froben de Hammelburg unknown
15998636Imprinted at London By the Deputies of Christopher Barker 1599. 1599 4to. 4 434 8 441-554 fols. Black letter text in two columns with sidenotes in a roman font. The text is the Geneva version with Tomson's NT but Junius's Revelation. Contemporary blind panelled calf binding over bevelled oak boards with brass corners and centre pieces. Fittings for clasps remain but the clasps themselves are lacking. Rebacked in the nineteenth century with the original spine re-laid and a title label and date added to the spine. The joints now have short splits. Signatures A and B in the OT are misbound but complete and there are similar misbound leaves in the NT Paul's Epistles. STC 2173. Herbert 247. BOUND WITH Two right profitable and fruitfull Concordances as issued and with a fragment of The Whole Booke of Psalmes . Printed by John Windet for the Assignes of Richard Daye 1598 ends at Psalm xxxiii. There are old paper tape repairs in places to strengthen edges and clear evidence of centuries of use throughout. The 19th century endpapers are inscribed Alfred Holwell The Gift of his Parents 1874 which probably dates the rebacking. There are also two pages of family tree of the Holwell family. The verso of the NT title page has 18th century records of the Raven Norfolk family. A complete and unsophisticated copy of the the actual 1599 printing. Imprinted at London By the Deputies of Christopher Barker hardcover
158862732Kiøbenhaffn Matz Vingaard 1588-89. Folio c. 365 × 255 mm. Recently bound in a magnificent pastiche binding of full brown calf spine with five raised bands and blind-tooled ornamentation forming triangular compartments. Covers panelled with blind-tooled geometric framing gilt floral tools at the corners and a large central diamond-shaped lozenge. Double-ruled fillets to the borders of the boards. 22 353 i.e. 354 226 159 ff. Wanting two leaves: J f. 49 in the New Testament and Cc6 f. 156 in the Book of Revelation. Leaves 157–159 of the Book of Revelation erroneously bound between Dd2 and Dd3 in the First Book of Samuel.With three woodcut title-pages printed in black and red portrait and coat of arms. Outer and upper margins closely trimmed occasionally just touching text. The Old Testament and the Prophets with a few discreet marginal repairs and closed tears. The New Testament with more substantial repairs and occasional loss of text. Book of Revelation with leaves re-margined as usual. Some occasional small stains; larger inkstain on verso of B2 and recto of B3. Despite the two lacking leaves but with the often missing portrait and title-pages a good copy of a work often found in very worn condition owing to the poor quality of the paper. <br/><br/><em>The magnificent first printing of the second Danish–Norwegian Bible in folio - the celebrated Frederik II Bible - and one of the grandest monuments of sixteenth-century Danish printing. Issued by the command of Frederik II this monumental Bible represents the second complete Danish Bible in folio format and is notably the first Danish folio Bible printed by a Dane. It stands as the magnum opus of Mads Vingaard and “and the most extensive work of printing undertaken in Denmark during the sixteenth century. The book is profusely illustrated with woodcuts copied from a german Bible issued by Sigmund Feyerabend in Frankfurt a. M. 1560. The original woodcuts were made by the artist and craftsman Virgil Solis. Wide woodcut borders together with pictures using themes from the Scriptures surround the title pages and the illustrations. On the reverse of the first title page many copies have pasted in a portrait of Frederich II engraved by the Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius. However this portrait may also be found on a separate leaf." Thesaurus I. A monumental production both typographically and artistically the Frederik II Bible marks the consolidation of Reformation scripture in Denmark-Norway and reflects the growing technical and artistic sophistication of the Copenhagen press. Its scale and royal patronage place it among the most important achievements of Scandinavian Renaissance book culture. Lauritz Nielsen 405. - Thesaurus I 129. - Birkelund 34. </em> hardcover
1585372230London: Deputies of Christopher Barker 1585. Text in black letter in two columns. General title and calendar printed in red and black titles within woodblock frames woodcut map on leaf following NT NT-O3 woodcut initials. 17 536 137pp. New Testament title page present. Lacks preliminary blank lacks the general title with a 1588 title supplied in its place lacks NT leaf V1 Titus 2:12 through Hebrews 1:10 preliminaries bound out of order. Folio 15-5/8x10-1/2 inches. Nineteenth century dark purple morocco covers blocked in blind marbled endpapers red edges. Repairs to voids in preliminaries and several leaves in the beginning of Genesis general title supplied and mounted restoration to the terminal five leaves with some losses else scattered minor staining and edge tears. Scattered early marginalia including an early female ownership signature on page 536. Bookseller's label on front endpaper J. Whereat Weston Super Mare. Text in black letter in two columns. General title and calendar printed in red and black titles within woodblock frames woodcut map on leaf following NT NT-O3 woodcut initials. 17 536 137pp. New Testament title page present. Lacks preliminary blank lacks the general title with a 1588 title supplied in its place lacks NT leaf V1 Titus 2:12 through Hebrews 1:10 preliminaries bound out of order. Folio 15-5/8x10-1/2 inches. The Bishops' version the translation overseen by Matthew Parker. ESTC S156; Herbert 188; STC 2143. Provenance: General Theological Seminary bookplates Deputies of Christopher Barker unknown
1567512128Gerwinum Calenium und die Erben etwan Johan Quentels Zu CölnGerivinum Calenium und die Erben etwan Johan Quentels Zu CölnGerivinum Calenium und die Erben etwan Johan Quentels 1567. Leather. VERY GOOD. 6 528 OT Apocrypha; 159 NT f. COMPLETE with first five leaves tipped in. General title printed in red and black with woodcut architectural border showing heavenly scene of the Trinity surrounded by angels at head four evangelists with their symbols to center and 12 apostles to the tail; NT title page with the same border. Illustrated with 134 woodcuts by Virgil Solis and others and woodcut dropcaps. NT leaf 82 mis-foliated as 86 Folio contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over bevelled boards elaborately tooled with double border of noble portraits on pedestals surrounding interior border of angelic figures framing center panel emblazoned with Jesuit 'IHS' insignia to front and Virgin with child to rear; in contemporary trim with dark blue edgestain; leather hasps perished but with all four brass fixtures intact hand-written title to upper spine panel both original headbands intact. Tidemark to upper and tail margins of Kings - Ezekiel and small dampstains to tail margin of most of the NT first four leaves tipped-in with some marginal tissue repair to the title page and second leaf; marginal gloss to 22b and a few marginal notes to the prelims text otherwise very clean and sharp with no tears and typical shelfwear to edges. Large color bookplate of Gottfried Ritter von Boehm. A very handsome and uncommonly clean and unrestored binding. Commonly known as the 'Anti-Luther Bibel' Dietenberger's translation was the standard Catholic German translation of the Counter-Reformation and well into the 17th century. 'Johannes Dietenberger ca. 1475–1537 native of Frankfurt am Main university-trained Doctor of Theology and Dominican friar served as prior in Frankfurt and Koblenz during the 1525 Urban Revolt of the German Peasants’ War and the early Protestant Reformation respectively. Like Martin Luther Dietenberger translated the Bible into the vernacular German after consulting recently published Greek and Hebrew biblical texts; however unlike Luther he produced a translation that remained true to the Latin Vulgate and the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church. Dietenberger aimed to counter those parts of Luther’s translation which contradicted Catholic tradition and at the same time to provide a translation whose language was less coarse and offensive.' Roman Fischer and Jourden Travis Moger 'Johannes Dietenberger and his Counter-Reformation German Bible' in Journal of the Bible and Its Reception Feb. 2017. Darlow & Moule 4211; VD16 B 2804. Gerwinum Calenium und die Erben etwan Johan Quentels, Zu CölnGerivinum Calenium und die Erben etwan Johan Quentels, Zu CölnGer unknown
15866176Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker Printer to the Queene's Maiestie. 1586. 1586 8vo. Collates A - Xxxviii lacking Fffviii blank. Apocrypha ends at Fffvi followed by A perfite supputation of the yeeres and times from Adam unto Christ. NT begins at Gggi and the Second Table ends at Xxxviii. Unrecorded by ESTC and a completely different setting to Herbert 191 which ends at Qqq8. Despite Herbert stating that BL has a copy of Herbert 191 neither ESTC nor WorldCat can locate a copy. BOUND WITH The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into English Metre . At London Printed by John Daye dwelling ouer Alders-gate. 1584. ESTC S116211 Gv lacking a blank corner Gvi defective at the foot and lacking Gvii-viii. New period style calf panelled in blind. Spine with raised bands. Old endpapers preserved with an ornate full page calligraphic inscription Ann Kent Her Book April ye 27th An: Dni: 1696. Early notes on the title verso. Some headlines and signatures shaved by a previous binder but a clean sound copy of a rare octavo Geneva Bible. Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queene's Maiestie. hardcover
15192682Lyon: Jacques I Mareschal for Simon Vincent 1519. <p>8vo 180 x 126 mm. 30 500 54 pp. with pagination errors. Title and first table printed in red and black text in two columns with printed marginalia indices and summary in 3 columns. Colophon on fol. RR4v. Publisher’s woodcut device Baudrier no. 2 on title and final verso full-page woodcut showing the six days of Creation within ornamental border historiated woodcut initials throughout; red paragraph marks to opening page and red highlighting to the facing woodcut. Mainly faint marginal dampstain in upper margins light discoloration to outer margins. Contemporary Flemish blind-tooled calf over wooden boards sides with leafy roll-tool border enclosing central panel with intersecting triple fillets forming a saltire design the compartments filled with a repeated foliate tool arranged symmetrically one of two fore-edge clasps two catches; many deckle edges preserved worn a few small chips to leather pastedown endpapers renewed. Provenance: early ownership inscriptions on title: Mrr Cornelius Adamus ter Borch; and Siba Lÿken; contemporary marginal notes and some text markings crosses in margins and underlinings in first few books Genesis-Deuteronomy; abundant 17th and/or 18th-century philological annotations in Genesis and Exodus and in the indices including full page of notes on blank page 2E5v.<br /> <br /> A complete portable Bible printed in very small types containing an ample scholarly apparatus and finding aids for the use of theology students and scholars; this copy with contemporary annotations and in a contemporary blind-tooled calf binding probably Flemish. This compact glossed Bible densely and economically printed with no break between the Old and New Testaments is enlivened by hundreds of historiated woodcut initials from woodcut alphabets designed by Guillaume Leroy who also designed the six-part full-page woodcut of the Creation. <br /> <br /> Mareschal’s useful “pocket†Bibles were bestsellers this being the fourth of six octavo editions from his press. They were among the first Bible editions to include a rhyming mnemonic Biblical summary by the minorite friar Franciscus Gothi in which each four-line verse summarizes a Biblical chapter. Occupying here the final two quires and called for in the colophon it is not recorded by Baudrier or Gültlingen. Possibly buyers had the choice of including it or not in their copies. Otherwise the text of Mareschal’s octavo Bibles follows that of the Bible printed in Basel in 1509 by Johann Petri and Froben using the text edited by the Dominican Alberto Castellano and supplying for the first time marginal notes citing canon law. The apparatus includes four tables and a glossary of Hebrew names. As in the Petri editions a six-line commendatory poem by Matthias Sambucellus is printed on the title here with the first word of the last line incorrectly given as “Omne†instead of “Omine.â€<br /> <br /> The publisher Simon Vincent belonged to Lyon’s powerful booksellers' guild the Compagnie des Libraires whose members helped Mareschal during his early years impressed by his skill conscientiousness and sobriety â€a rare trait among printers of this period†notes Baudrier qualities which contrasted markedly with those of the printer Michel Topie whose press Mareschal had acquired in 1512 Baudrier 11:383.<br /> <br /> USTC 145003; Adams B-997; Pettegree & Walsby French Vernacular Books III: 57271. Darlow & Moule II: 6093 note; Baudrier Bibliographie lyonnaise 11: 401 and pp. 380 397 & 448; Gültlingen Bibliographie des livres imprimés à Lyon 2:209 no. 56.</p> Jacques I Mareschal [for Simon Vincent] unknown
1587ST14247Venetiis Venice: Hieronymus Polus 1587. 213 x 146 mm. 8 3/8 x 5 5/8". 12 p.l. 1126 pp. <br/> ESPECIALLY PLEASING CONTEMPORARY CALF covers with gilt French fillet frame and oval wreath of olive branches the center of the wreath in the shape of a cross flat spine ruled in gilt red morocco label. Title page with elaborate wood-engraved frame text profusely illustrated WITH 600 WOOD ENGRAVINGS depicting scenes from scripture after Holbein Bernard Salomon le Petit Bernard and others a handful of these a bit indistinct. Front pastedown with ex-libris of Leonis S. Olschki. Adams B-1093; STC Italian 93. Not in Darlow & Moule. ◆A little wear to joints and extremities spine a bit crackled separation at hinges but no looseness occasional minor browning or foxing otherwise in remarkably fine condition the text clean and crisp and in a still-lustrous entirely solid unsophisticated original binding.<br/> <br/> This is a very well-preserved handsomely bound and lavishly illustrated edition with distinguished provenance of the Louvain Bible first printed in Venice in 1578. Our edition contains 600 wood engravings illustrating the text ranging from portraits of prophets saints and evangelists to dramatic scenes from the histories of the Old Testament and the life of Christ and ending with an imaginative Apocalypse cycle. Many of these are the work of Lyonnaise artist Bernard Salomon 1506-61 known by the sobriquet "Le Petit Bernard" for his small engravings rich with detail. Others are based on the biblical woodcuts of Hans Holbein. The binding here is likely French; the flat spine with just one large gilt-framed panel and the olive branch decoration on the covers is characteristic of late 16th century and early 17th century French work. The exceptional condition here is typical of books from the collection of Leo Samuel Olschki 1861-1940 scion of a family of Prussian Jewish printers whose interest in printing history led to his becoming a celebrated antiquarian bookseller author founder of the journal "The Bibliophile" and publisher of works in the humanities. Hieronymus Polus unknown
15847235Salamanca: Gasparem à Portonariis suis & Gulielmi Rouillii Benedictique Boierii expensis 1584. First Edition Primera edición. Hardcover Tapa dura. 297x210mm. 11¾x8¼". Salamanca Gasparem à Portonariis suis & Gulielmi Rouillij Benedictique Boierij expensis 1584-1585. 3 tomos en un volumen. En folio 297 x 210mm. 14 366 1 h.; 72 214 30 138 hojas 42 pp. Importante encuadernación mudéjar de época en piel sobre tabla planos ricamente gofrados lomera restaurada en cabeza y pie sin los broches. La Biblia de Salamanca con la traducción y notas de Francisco Vatablo publicada por primera vez en París en 1545 e impresa en España en 1554 con atribución a fray Domingo de Soto de la revisión del texto prohibida y mandada retirar por la Inquisición entre los años 1554 y 1559 pero que finalmente pudo ser publicada en Salamanca en 1584. Se conoce como <em>Biblia de Vatablo</em> a la edición preparada por Robert Estienne de la versión <em>Vulgata</em> de las Sagradas Escrituras junto con la traducción latina de Sanctes Pagnino y las anotaciones y correcciones de François Vatable profesor de hebreo del Collège de France; fue impresa en París en 1545. Se trata de una Biblia única ya que contiene 2 textos en latín de la Sagrada Escritura y no uno como es común. A la primera traducción se la denomina como la traducción vieja y se trata de la primera traducción de la Biblia realizada al latín desde el hebreo y griego llamada <em>Vulgata</em>; la segunda traducción se la denomina como traducción nueva y contiene las ideas renacentistas. Ambas traducciones confrontan el pensamiento de la <em>Vulgata</em> y las correcciones de ésta entre lo antiguo y lo nuevo. La primera impresión de la Biblia de Vatablo en España fue realizada en 1554 por Andrea de Portonaris en Salamanca; fue considerada ilegal un año más tarde y se dice de ella que no hay ejemplar conocido. Esta segunda impresión de 1584 la única que pudo ver la luz fue publicada después de ser cuidadosamente revisada y expurgada por la Inquisición y un grupo de teólogos de la universidad de Alcalá llamados los <em>hebraizantes</em> a los que le costó la cárcel y la muerte y entre los que se encontraba Fray Luis de León. Esta Biblia editada por Gaspar de Portonaris hermano del impresor de la primera y desconocida primera versión comenzó su andadura en 1569 en un proceso de más de 100 juntas reuniendo a gran número de teólogos y que se extendió por varios años. Contiene para el Antiguo Testamento la versión de San Jerónimo y Pagnini y para el Nuevo Testamento la versión de San Jerónimo y la traducción de Erasmo junco con ciertas revisiones de Teodoro de Beza. Durante los debates hubo momentos de mucha tensión. Especialmente furibundos fueron los enfrentamientos entre Fray Luis de León profesor de Teología Prima y León de Castro profesor de Griego experto acusador de judíos y judaizantes y abiertamente enemigo de todo aquello que tuviera que ver con los textos en hebreo donde las amenazas con denunciarse mutuamente ante el Tribunal del Santo Oficio fueron constantes durante estos años de deliberaciones. En las juntas se enfrentaron dos tendencias irreconciliables lo que iba a desencadenar las persecución de los hebraístas. Finalmente Fray Luis de León y sus otros compañeros hebraístas fueron llevados ante la Inquisición encarcelados y llevados a juicio. Es precisamente durante este largo cautiverio cuando Fray Luis realiza algunas traducciones de libros y escribe varias poesías y una de sus obras más significativas<em> De los nombres de Cristo</em>. Finalmente en 1575 el Tribunal reconociendo el valor y la energía impuesta por Fray Luis en su defensa oral le creyó exento de toda culpa y sospecha. Gasparem à Portonariis suis & Gulielmi Rouillii Benedictique Boierii expensis hardcover
1599146373London: Deputies of Christopher Barker 1599; London: Robert Barker 1636. Rare "Breeches" Bible printed by Christopher Barker with the fictitious 1599 publication date. "There are many editions bearing this date which while agreeing closely are yet distinct . the phenomena of the various editions described under the year 1599 and the very similar edition of 1633 constitute one of the most curious problems in the bibliography of the English Bible." Genesis 3:7 with "Then the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed figge tree leaves together and made themselves breeches." Octavo two volumes bound into one in full paneled calf hand-embossing to the front and rear panels original silk and cloth ribbons woodcut title pages and initials. Bound with The Booke of Common Prayer and the Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England printed by Robert Barker in 1636. In good condition rebacked contemporary names and inscriptions to several pages. A very rare and desirable example of the Breeches Bible. Upon Queen Mary’s accession in 1553 “publication of the English Bible ceased in England. Many Protestants who fled to the Continent were attracted to Calvin’s Geneva. Among these exiles were eminent English Bible scholars who began work on a new translation†The Bible: 100 Landmarks 62. First published in 1560 the Geneva Bible—often called the “Breeches Bible†for its unique rendering of Genesis 3:7—was “more scholarly than any previous translation… It achieved immediate popularity and exerted an extremely powerful influence… The Geneva Version included prefaces maps and tables; and for the first time in an English Bible the verses were divided and numbered… It has been more properly called the Elizabethan family Bible since it was this version which was the first to enter the English home†PMM 83. “It became the textus receptus for the Puritan element in England. It was read by Shakespeare Bunyan and the soldiers of the Civil War and is thus of cardinal importance for its influence on the English language literature and thought†Great Books and Book Collectors 105-8. Deputies of Christopher Barker hardcover
1597ST19351Frankfurt: heirs of Andreas Wechel Claude de Marne & Johann Aubry 1597. Fourth Complete Greek Bible printed in Germany. 388 x 258 mm. 15 1/8 x 10 1/8". 4 p.l. 1 blank leaf attached to backing of folio :4 1098 2 pp. <br/> VERY STATELY 17TH CENTURY RED MOROCCO covers with mitered gilt frame gilt supralibros of Baderon de Maussac Olivier 745 at center raised bands spine panels with gilt flower gilt lettering all edges gilt. Printer's Pegasus device on title and final page. Front flyleaf with ink inscription recording the purchase on 24 February 1680 at Toulouse for 24 livres. Darlow & Moule 4653; VD16 B 2578; Adams B-979. ◆Three minute dents to front board a hint of wear to bands and corners isolated faint foxing blank recto of frontispiece leaf and blank verso of final leaf with faint blue shadow from endpapers but all of these quite trivial and otherwise A BEAUTIFUL COPY--fresh clean and bright internally with very wide margins and strong impressions of the plates and in a lustrous binding showing few signs of use.<br/> <br/> This handsome and remarkably well-preserved tall folio Greek Bible from a distinguished German printing firm comes in a shiny armorial binding with aristocratic French provenance. Darlow & Moule assigns the editing of this issue to Franciscus Junius François du Jon or Friedrich Sylburg noting that the Old Testament "is based on the Basel edition of 1545 . . . with correction from the Complutensian text and useful notes." The New Testament follows the text of Robert Estienne's 1568-69 edition. The Wechel family had a long tradition of humanist printing with an emphasis on Greek texts beginning with the press of Christian Wechel fl. 1520-54 in Paris and continuing after his son Andreas d. 1581 fled to Frankfurt to escape the persecution of Protestants in France. Andreas' descendants carried on the business through the first quarter of the 17th century. Olivier's "Reliures Armoriées Françaises" 1926 pl. 745 offers three possible attributions for the supralibros here all from the Languedoc region during the first half of the 17th century: Jean de Baderson; Jacques de Baderon seigneur de Maussac a member of the Parlement of Toulouse; and Jacques de Baderon de Maussac seigneur de Montagnac et de Corneillan and commandant of the city of Collioure. The inscription on the flyleaf here indicating that the book was purchased in Toulouse perhaps supports the case for the member of the Parlement in that city. The 24 livres paid for our imposing volume in 1680 would have represented as much as two months' wages for a worker in the region of its purchase. heirs of Andreas Wechel, Claude de Marne & Johann Aubry unknown
15546212Lyon: Jean de Tournes 1554. First edition. Octavo 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 171 x 121 mm. . 16 1152 76 pp bound without the last two blank leaves as in most copiese.g. Mortimer OCLC. The penultimate leaf had only a fleuron at the foot of the page and the final leaf was blank. Arabesque title border and 198 with 1 repeat woodcuts in the text by Bernard Salomon. Title-page with faint early ink "ex-Libris petri ------ at top blank margin. Title-page expertly cleaned some occasional mainly marginal faint foxing otherwise a superb example of this wonderfully illustrated mid sixteenth-century Latin Bible. Bound ca. 1880 by Chambolle-Duru in full brown crushed levant morocco spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt gilt ruled board edges decorative gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers all edge gilt. Armorial bookplate "In Memori: Weiler Bibliotheca Trautner Falkiana" on verso of front free endpaper.<br /> <br /> First De Tournes Latin Bible based on Robert Estienne's text and beautifully illustrated with 198 woodcuts by Bernard Salomon. "Considerable work could be done on Salomon's sources for these cuts. The Expulsion from Paradise suggests Holbein's version; the New Testament shows some dependence on the set owned by Sébastien Gryphius. the Apocalypse blocks are enlarged copies of the fine Janot Apocalypse. But the cumulative effect of Salomon's carefully detailed scenes is that of an individual contribution to Bible illustration. Particularly interesting from the point of view of technique are the night scenes in Exodus and the storm over Noah's ark. In this 1554 Bible the New Testament blocks are printed with arabesque strip borders at the sides. Arabesque and type ornament headpieces." Mortimer Contents include: Old Testament; Psalms; New Testament Epistles Acts; Index Testimoniorum & Index Epistolarum.<br /> <br /> Robert I Estienne 1503-1559 was a French protestant printer and scholar born into a printmaking family. He would take over his family's Paris firm in 1526 where he printed significant works in Latin Greek Hebrew and other languages. His 1531 Thesaurus linguae latinae is considered a major milestone in lexicography. Despite his many commissions for the King religious tensions forced Estienne to flee to Geneva. <br /> <br /> This bible was illustrated by Bernard Salomon c.1508-1561 a French artist who is known for engravings and illustrations. Although little is known about his life his art reveals stylistic influences from Mannerism and the School of Fontainebleau executed in a detailed and small scale. Salomon is known to have collaborated with the printer Jean de Tournes and produced decoration for emblem books bibles and classic texts. Many of his engravings also appear as source material for art objects such as a Faience plate at the MET featuring the Sacrifice of Noah.<br /> <br /> Brunet I 876 & Supplement I 125; Darlow & Moule 6134 note; Mortimer French no. 81. Jean de Tournes unknown
155067900En Leon i.e. Strassburg: en Casa de Sebastian Grypho i.e. Augustin Fries 1550. BIBLE IN SPANISH; ENZINAS Francisco de. First Edition in Spanish of Ecclesiasticus<br> <br> BIBLE IN SPANISH. ENZINAS Francisco de translator. Ecclesiastics. Libro de Jesus Hiio de Syrach qu'es llamado el Ecclesiastico. traduzido de Griego en lengua Castellana En Leon i.e. Strassburg: en Casa de Sebastian Grypho i.e. Augustin Fries 1550.<br> <br> First edition in Spanish of Ecclesiasticus. Small octavo 6 x 3 5/8 inches; 151 x 91 mm. 3 109 leaves. With numerous woodcut initials. With an imitation Gryphius woodcut device printed in reverse on title. We could only locate 3 copies at libraries Cambridge Madrid and Copenhagen. No other copy besides this present copy has been at auction in the past 50 years.<br> <br> Early 19th-century mottled sheep. Boards tooled in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. With red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some minor dampstaining mainly to lower blank margin of preliminaries. Signature G is toned. Leaves O3 and O4 with marginal paper repair not affecting text. Final leaf is toned and has a near invisible paper repair not affecting text. Overall a very good copy.<br> <br> "A native of Burgos educated at Louvain and Wittenberg Francisco de Enzinas 1518-52 was a humanist scholar and Protestant convert who produced the first Spanish version of the New Testament printed in 1543 in Antwerp. He formed a partnership with the Strassburg printer Augustin Fries to publish Spanish translations of Greek classics and the remainder of the Bible of which he was only able to complete Psalms Ecclesiasticus Job and Proverbs before his death. Baudrier VIII 241 not having seen or located a copy citing Brunet supplement II 712"<br> <br> "Even before the complete edition of Castellio's Latin Bible appeared Enzinas who had already produced a Spanish Bible New Testament in Antewerp in 1543 had translated the Psalter the Wisdom of Solomon Jesus Sirach present copy and the book of Job into Spanish. All of these appeared with the false address 'En Leon en casa de Sebastian Grypho' though they were in fact his translations from manuscript versions of Castellio's edition. Enzinas continued to work on his translations until his death on 30 December 1552. He had planned to have his Spanish Bible printed in Geneva but this fortunately for Calvin never came to pass." Gilly Spanien und der Basler Buchdruck pp. 342-9 510-11. Found in Sebastian Castellio 1515-1563: Humanist and Defender of Religious .By Hans R. Guggisberg Bruce Gordon.<br> <br> "FRIES Augustine: printer in Zurich and Strasburg began to print at the former place about 1540. In 1547 he printed two books in English by John Hooper Heitz p. 39. Soon after this he moved to Strasburg and there printed among other things several works in Spanish by Franzisco de Enzinas in 1550 and 1551 Wiffen I pp 179 etc." A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All Printers. By Edward Gordon Duff.<br> <br> HBS 67900.<br> <br> $8500. en Casa de Sebastian Grypho [i.e. Augustin Fries] unknown
1584096038London: Imprinted at London : By Christopher Barker printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie Anno 1584. 1584. Bishops Bible. ESTC Citation No. S674. STC 2nd ed. 2141. Collation signature complete a1-c8 a1-cccc8 in 8s dddd4 Psalmes a6-l6m4. one signature in 7 but complete 1 full page plate Adam & Eve text map 1 full page map engraved titles. Book measures 11 x 8 inches. A1 title page chipped lacking section of margin in places with loss of engraved area title laid down dd6cc6bbb2ddd2vvv8yyy7zzz1 these pages have short tears mainly single tear with very minor loss of text or the odd letter 8 other pages have closed short tears. Occasional annotations in a early hand some margins trimmed with loss of lettering some other minor defects. Bound in recent full calf panelled boards raised bands leather title label full gilt edges new endpapers. Internally some staining to Psalmes. Pages in very good condition throughout. A very nice copy. Very Good Plus. Large 8vo. Imprinted at London : By Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, Anno 1584. hardcover
157752602<p>London imprinted by R. Jugge Printer to the Queenes Majestie cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis1577. Bishops' version 1577 The Bishops' Bible also known as the "Treacle Bible" because of its translation of Jeremiah 8:22: "Is there not treacle at Gilead". IMPERFECT: LACKS FIRST TITLE PAGE PREFACE and 2 PAGES from THE WHOLE SCRIPTURE. First page is a Prayer then 3 pages of The Whole Scripture followed by 6 leaves of Kalendar then The Order Howe 1 page then 2 pages Proper Lessons then 3 pages Certain Godly and Comfortable Prayers then 24 leaves of The Book of Common Prayer leaves: 35 1-103 1 - blank; title to 2nd part 106-252; title to 3rd part 254-500 581-592 the jump in pagination 500-581 is the same in all copies nothing is missing; New Testament leaves: title 2-127 last page with colophon and publisher's device. Psalmes: title pages: 4 1-99 page 99 misplaced in final section; Final section Veni Creator Song of 3 Children etc: 14 of 16 lacks A1. Small 4to bound in eights approximately 205 x 155 mm 8 x 6 inches slightly cropped affecting some running titles dated title page to New Testament and Psalms divisional titles to the second and third parts of the Old Testament and to the Apocrypha. 1 half page woodcut of the Garden of Eden 1 full page of the 12 tribes and the Tabernacle 3 maps in the text and 2 full page maps historiated initials pages ruled in red collation: pi6 -pi1-3 and pi6 6 2 misnumbered 3 4 A-C8 A-Z8 Aa-Hh8 Ii4 KK-Zz8 Aaa-Sss8 Ttt4; A-P8 Q6. The NT is followed by The Metric Psalms printed in London by John Daye 1577. Bound in old panelled calf rebacked with raised bands gilt title and date boards cornered in decorated brass with a single boss small central decorated brass lozenge with single boss to both boards probably the covers with brass bosses are as issued at the time decorated brass clasps not matching and partially renewed at some time ornate gilt monogram to both boards: "C C" early endpapers retained. Inner paper hinges strengthened neatly with paper strip ex Cheshunt College library with armorial bookplate on front pastedown stamped "Withdrawn" ink name with date 1748 on front endpaper faint inscription on 2nd blank endpaper 2 small rusty marks with hole at centre on first 2 endpapers caused by nails in clasps similar smaller marks on rear endpapers first page of prelims pi4 - A prayer is dusty and stamped in red at top and bottom with the college name small brown stain on pages 141 verso -142 recto no loss of legibility another on 255 verso - 256 obscuring a few words large pale brown stain on 176 verso no loss small piece missing from lower corner of Nnn1 with loss of a few words a large lower corner missing from D6 135 x 75 mm 5" x 3" that is St. Luke Chapters IV and V worming to lower margins of NT leaves 21-39 sometimes touching bottom line of text loss of 2 words on both sides of leaves 27 and 29 handling signs to NT margins large pale water stain to NT leaves 23 to 105 small closed tear to lower corner of NT leaf 78 no loss outer margins of final 2 leaves tatty no loss of text. A few other minor faults. A good copy of an Elizabethan Bible. Last page of Revelation: Imprinted at London by Richard Jugge Printer to the Queenes Majestie cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis. Jugge's device with the motto: Omne Bonu Supernae below. Darlow and Moule Historical Catalogue of Holy Scripture Volume 1 pages 85-86 No.112; A.S. Herbert The English Bible 1525-1961 page 85 No.150. ESTC No: S5108. Old Bibles by J.R. Dore page 262 states: "This Bible is also particularly interesting from its being the last Bible ever printed by Richard Jugge. This makes the words placed over his printer's device on the last page so significant cogita mori." He died in the same year 1577. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, imprinted by R. Jugge, Printer to the Queenes Majestie, cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis,1577. hardcover
152966850Lyons: Per Johanem Crespin 1529. BIBLE IN LATIN. Lyons: Per Johanem Crespin 1529.<br> <br> Second Crespin edition reprinted from the 1527 edition. Folio 13 15/16 x 10 inches; 354 x 252 mm. 304 leaves 18 CCLXVIII 18 leaves. Complete with final blank leaf. Gothic type. Text in double columns within rule borders. Title printed in red and black with small woodcut of St. Jerome repeated three times in the text with Jerome's prefaces within a four-part woodcut border showing God the Father and two angels in a tympanum the six days of Creation and the Last Supper. Large six-part Creation woodcut at the beginning of Genesis half-page woodcut of King Solomon at the beginning of Proverbs full-page Nativity woodcut at the beginning of the New Testament and 121 small text woodcuts including twenty-three repetitions: ninety-one Old Testament woodcuts within strip borders including eight repetitions and thirty New Testament woodcuts without borders including fifteen repetitions. Decorative woodcut initials. The Eusebian canons leaves D1-D3 are printed in red and black in a red architectural framework.<br> <br> Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards roll-tooled in blind to a panel design. Lacking clasps. Original index tabs. Binding worn with some loss of pigskin on upper corner of front cover. Title soiled lower margin of first few leaves wormed and frayed with some loss to woodcut title border a few short marginal tears some mostly marginal dampstaining minor worming to lower inner margins a few inkstains slight discoloration throughout. Despite these minor flaws this is a beautiful example of a French woodcut Bible completely unsophisticated. Contemporary ink inscription on back pastedown dated 1534 contemporary ink inscription on the recto of D4 beneath the Nativity cut eighteenth- or nineteenth-century inscription on title: B.V. Maria in Fürstenfeld. Some early underlining and coloring of woodcuts in red. A few early ink marginalia. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell case.<br> <br> The illustrations follow the schema of the Sacon Bibles printed in Lyons in 1518 and 1521. Crespin's blocks with the exception of the Creation are close copies of those used in Jacques and Jean Mareschal's Lyons Bibles of 1523-1541 as is the layout of the text within ruled columns. The borders for the Old Testament blocks include a strip with the initials "PBA."<br> <br> Fairfax Murray French 36. Harvard French 66. Not in Brunet Rothschild Darlow and Moule.<br> <br> HBS 66850.<br> <br> $9500. Per Johanem Crespin unknown
1591P36<p><strong>Summary:</strong> London: Deputies of Christopher Barker 1591. Pulpit Folio 15 x 9.75 in. A later pulpit folio Bishops' Bible with attractive black letter text. Textually complete with a portion of the general title the New Testament title and in very good condition.</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Includes nine preliminary leaves with the <em>Kalendar</em> ending on the full-page Adam and Eve engraving. The general title page 1591 in red and black is laid down. Text is in two column black letter. The New Testament title page 1591 within architectural border. First chapter initials and decorated head and tailpieces throughout.</p><p><strong>Collation:</strong> A-Z6 Aa-Zz6 Aaa-Zzz6 Aaaa-Zzzz6 Aaaaa6 Bbbbb4. Complete.</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Rebound in modern brown calf with original covers laid down. Covers within double blind-rolled border and fleurons at corners. Spine with six blind-lined bands and blind rolls to compartments. A dark red gilt-lined label with the words "Holy Bible 1591" in gilt. Plain endpapers.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> The text is generally in very good condition with good margins throughout. Occasional staining mostly marginal and a few minor marginal tears. General title is missing 60 percent with the bottom portion mounted an inserted on the verso of a leaf before the prelims. Below the title is a slip of paper with "William Ingham and Richard Weles bought this booke." On the front free endpaper is a large inscription 'John Smeeton His Book" and at the top are records of the births of five children 1658-1661. On the recto of the following leaf is a bookplate that reads "in the Savoy John Smeeton August 20 1675."; inserted after the title are two slightly defective leaves of the <em>Proper Lessons</em> in manuscript; Prelims include the<em> Almanacke</em> and <em>Kalenda</em>r about one third of June/July is missing and the whole is a bit worn; the final preliminary leaf with some paper repairs to the top edge reducing the border of the Adam and Eve engraving; bottom corner of Genesis 2 is torn away and replaced in manuscript; G1-N3 Ex-Num worm hole to the top inner margin not impacting text; Kk4 paper flaw removing some letters of sidenote on verso; Tt3 paper flaw without loss; Tt6 Bbb2 Yyyy3 with closed tears into the text; Uu1 piece torn from margin just touching the text and removing a couple of word from the sidenote; Xx2-Zz6 slight marginal worming; Qqqq6 possibly a paper flaw with old repair slightly obscuring some letters of text; final leaf bound slightly askew with some lower marginal repair.</p><p><strong>Note:</strong> One of a series of large folio black letter Bishops' Bibles. These Bibles were often used in parish churches but people of means bought them for private us as was apparently the case in this copy. The folio Bishops' Bibles that have survived are frequently imperfect as is the copy described in Herbert's catalog.</p><p><strong>References:</strong> Herbert 209; STC 2156; ESTC S121300.</p> Deputies of Christopher Barker hardcover
1532ABC_49016Paris: Roberti Stephani = Robert Estienne 1532. Modern gold-tooled brown calf with the title lettered in gold on the spine red sprinkled edges. Folio. With Estienne's large olive-tree device on the general title page and the divisional titles of parts 3 interpretatio and 4 index a woodcut decorative border around the word "Biblia" on the general title page and 79 decorated metalcut criblé initials. 4 parts in 1 volume. Including: - Hebraica Chaldaea Graecáque & Latina nomina virorum .- Index rerum et sentiarum quae in Veteris & novi testamenti libris continentur. Second enlarged and first fully glossed edition of the famed Estienne Bible. The work is "considered the earliest genuine attempt at a critical edition of the Vulgate text. it became practically the foundation of the official Roman Vulgate" Schreiber. The first edition of this Bible was Estienne's first major work and "immediately established him as the most outstanding figure in the Paris book trade at the time" Schreiber. The present copy is complete with the glossary and index which appear as parts 3 and 4. It also includes the beautiful criblé initials by engraver Geoffroy Tory 1480-1533.Robert Estienne 1503-1559 acquired Vulgate manuscripts during his years in Paris and printed numerous editions throughout his career beginning in 1528. Unlike the first edition the present edition includes marginal references concise notes and an extensive index of significant Hebrew words. It also contains Estiennes distinctive typographical symbols indicating words present in the Hebrew text but omitted from the Latin version and vice versa. Notably this edition is the first in which Estienne placed the Acts of the Apostles between the Gospels and the Pauline Epistles rather than at the end of the volume as was then customary.With an annotation at the top of the title page another in the middle of the title page and a signature below. The front and back board are somewhat scratched. The title page has been reinforced in the margins likely with the final blank of the second part which is missing to repair the tear in the bottom half large ink stains in the inner margin of leaves 243-244 and 306-307 of the first part a tear in the outer margin of leaf 7 of part 3 minor ink thumb prints on some of the leaves each leaf has been ruled in reddish-brown ink with manicules on some of the leaves. Otherwise in very good condition.l Darlow & Moule 6112; Renouard p. 35.1; USTC 181366; cf. Schreiber The Estiennes 37 other ed. Roberti Stephani [= Robert Estienne], unknown
1574P37<p><strong>Summary:</strong> London: Richard Jugge 1574. Folio 13 x 9 in. The third folio edition of the Bishops' Bible with a fold-out map. Text in attractive black letter and a good number of woodcuts and four titles.</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> 26 out of 28 preliminary leaves present with Calendar printed in red and black. Lacks general title but all four other title pages are present. Printed in smaller type than the 1572 folio but still contains woodcuts as chapter summaries Genesis Exodus Numbers Matthew Mark Luke John etc. and an additional full-page composite cut before Revelation and a few maps. First chapter initials and decorated head and tailpieces throughout.</p><p><strong>Collation:</strong> A-M8 N6 Gen-Deut; Aa-Ss8 Tt6 Joshua-Job; Aaa-Sss8 T6 V6 Psalms-Mal; Aaaa-Mmmm8 Nnnn6 Apocrypha; A-Q8 R6 New Testament. <u>Lacks</u> general title and R4-R6 last three leaves. With two page fold-out map of <em>New Map of Places Mentioned in the New Testament </em>bound at front but <u>lacks</u> the two page fold-out maps in Exodus and Joshua.</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Rebacked in marbled calf with old marbled sheep covers laid on. Front cover with some surface loss. Spine with four raised bands and a red gilt-lined label with the words "Bishop's Bible." Plain endpapers.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> Generally a very good copy with marginal notes occasionally shaved; Occasional staining to the top and bottom margins e.g. D3-D6 K6-K8; some browning; Aii Matt 1 piece torn from inner column with loss of a few verses; B4 closed tear to outer edge just touching the text and through several notes; C1 long closed tear through most of the inner portion of the leaf without loss; G7 closed tear to bottom of inner column through 18 lines; M7 closed tear with loss to the first several lines of text to both columns; ex-library bookplate of Zion Research Library on front pastedown.</p><p><strong>Note:</strong> The third folio edition of the Bishops' Bible. Printed in smaller type with 63 lines to the column. After the first folio which contains over 120 woodcuts the number of woodcuts in the Bishops' Bible gradually decreases. The third folio still contains a good number of cuts and the fold-out map at the beginning of this copy is quite nice.</p><p><strong>References:</strong> Herbert 137; STC 2109; ESTC S107032; Luborsky & Ingram 2109.</p> Richard Jugge hardcover
1587371783Rome: Franciscus Zanetti 1587. Text in Greek with short Latin notes at the end of each verse in two columns. Large engraved vignette on title with figures of Moses and Esdras on either side of the arms of Sixtus V. aâ´ A-3Sⶠ3Tâ¸. 8 783 1pp. Folio. Eighteenth century red morocco arms of the second Duke of Newcastle on the covers marbled endpapers gilt edges minor darkening to spine and wear to joints. Scattered minor dampstaining at lower outer corner of a few leaves. Provenance: Collegii Paris. Societas Jesu.early inscription on title; Douglass Maxwell Moffat booklabel with original invoice purchasing the volume from Davis & Orioli in 1940; General Theological Seminary bookplates. Text in Greek with short Latin notes at the end of each verse in two columns. Large engraved vignette on title with figures of Moses and Esdras on either side of the arms of Sixtus V. aâ´ A-3Sⶠ3Tâ¸. 8 783 1pp. Folio. Commissioned by Pope Sixtus V to assist the revisers who were preparing the Latin Vulgate edition ordered by the Council of Trent the "Sixtine" or "Roman" edition of the Septuagint was edited by Cardinal Antonio Carafa based on the Codex Vaticanus and became the standard for all the later editions of the Septuagint for three centuries after its publication. Darlow & Moule no. 4647; Adams B1246; BM STC Italian 1465-1600 p. 94 Franciscus Zanetti unknown
158653478Wittenberg: Zacharias Crato Krafft 1586. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Four parts quarto published between 1586 and 1587. Register continuous through parts 1 and 2; separate registers for parts 3 and 4. Collation in 4s: 1-65 blank 33.4; 1-30 lacks blank 30.4; 1-32 lacks 32.4 colophon. 506 leaves. Title within elaborate woodcut borders. Single-column text in vocalized Hebrew with cantillation; printed side-glosses. Separate Hebrew half-titles within woodcut borders for the latter three parts Former Prophets; Later Prophets; Hagiographa; names of the biblical books set in large font within woodcut cartouches. Later vellum. Title and following three leaves with marginal reinforcement slight text loss. Occasional mild embrowning else very good with bright half-titles. <br /> <br /> First Wittenberg edition of the complete Hebrew Scriptures with a concluding list of Haftaroth readings noting the Ashkenazi and Sefardi variations. Our copy is the variant with Hebrew and Latin title. A majority of the few surviving copies are bound with a Hebrew title and the publisher's information is taken from the colophon which provides a Jewish calendar date of 5347 = 1587. Vinograd notes that individual books and sections of the Hebrew Bible had been printed at Wittenberg since a quarto edition of the prophet Obadiah appeared in 1521. The title-page designs were re-used in the Hebrew bible published at Frankfurt am Oder in 1595. Each book closes with the Masora Finales printed in square type.<br /> <br /> Andreas Masch notes in his revised edition of Le Long's Bibliotheca Sacra 1778: "This edition of the Hebrew Bible is so rare and infrequent that it was omitted in the earlier edition of Le Long's work at Paris but it is known to Wolffius Bibliotheca Hebraea not in its entirety but only in respect of certain parts." One can speculate as to why the edition is rare but it may be worth noting that "when Hans and Friedrich Hartmann decided to start producing Hebraica in an effort to become the official printer for the univeristy of Frankfurt/Oder they were able to do so relatively quickly by hiring away five experienced workmen from Zacharias Croto's Wittenberg firm which was having financial difficulties" Burnett.<br /> <br /> Masch continues: "At the colophon is noted the year and the name of those at whose expense this Hebrew Bible was published: colophon info in Heb. and Latin The above example is therefore attributed to the liberality of the prince and to the expense of the two citizens of Wittenberg But the Rühilii brothers were not correctors of the work but citizens and senators of Witteberg whose name is quite famous in the history of the Germanic Bibles. The work came from the workshop of Zacharias Craton otherwise known as Kraft to whom we owe several editions of German Bibles. The title in both copies represents a gate in which above and below Ps. 118 com. 20. is printed. In accordance with the first Plantin edition the text was printed so as to match nearly page-for-page. It is composed of four parts with the five festival books added to the Pentateuch; but each part is decorated with a special title." Full title: חמשה חומשי תורה Pentateuchum mandato & liberalitate illustrissimi principis ac Domini Domini Augusti Electoris Saxoniae. Vitebergae: Typis Zacharia Cratonis Anno 1586. alternate Hebrew title: חמשה חומשי תורה × ×“×¤×¡ ×¢× ×¨×‘ העיון על ידי זכריה כר×טו.<br /> <br /> References: Benzing Buchdrucker 16/17 p. 471; Le Long/Masch I 1778 pp. 33-34; Steinschneider 277; VD16 ZV 29818 quarto; Vinograd 21. Not in: Adams; Darlow & Moule; Delaveau & Hillard. Cf. Burnett Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era p. 204. Zacharias Crato [Krafft] hardcover
1527318283Coloniae: Petrus Quentel excudebat 1527. First Protestant Bible printed in Latin. Title-page with large woodcut vignette of arms of Cologne lion and gryphon rampant with and three crowns; numerous illustrations by Anton Woensam and ornamental initials throughout. Ff. 8 CCCXXV 1 LXXXVII i.e. 85 5. 1 vols. Folio. Recent half calf and marbled boards. Title page soiled old remargining tissue repairs on verso; some marginal worming and soiling generally clean with generous margins. Stamps of Cambridge Public Library in ink or in blind on four leaves. First Protestant Bible printed in Latin. Title-page with large woodcut vignette of arms of Cologne lion and gryphon rampant with and three crowns; numerous illustrations by Anton Woensam and ornamental initials throughout. Ff. 8 CCCXXV 1 LXXXVII i.e. 85 5. 1 vols. Folio. The first Protestant Bible in Latin edited by Johan Rüdel Rudelius printed in Cologne by Peter Quentel or Quentell and notable for the wood engraved illustrations by Anton Woensam Anton von Worms particularly those at the head of each of the four gospels. Matthew faces an angle who is touching his stylus; a lion is seated beside Mark; a bull with Luke; and an eagle stands beside John.<br /> <br /> Quentel was the printer of Tyndale's quarto Cologne English New Testament known from a single surviving fragment in the Grenville Collection where this same illustration to Matthew appears. It is a reasonable inference that each of the four gospels would have carried an illustration. The project which had "'got as far as the letter K' the signature that would have taken the work well into Mark" ODNB was unfinished at the time of Tyndale's flight from Cologne in 1525. Quentel's print shop was raided but sheets of the first gospel translated from the original Greek and printed in English soon began to circulate in England. Tyndale settled in Worms where Schöffer completed an octavo printing of the first complete English New Testament in 1526 a facsimile of the Grenville fragment and its illustration were published in 1871.<br /> <br /> The blocks for the illustrations evidently survived the raid on the Quentel's shop and are used here at the head of each of the four gospels.<br /> <br /> A notable edition in the history of the printing of the Bible. Adams 1007; not in Darlow & Moule but see note to 6107; VD16 B2589.OCLC: 22847218 Petrus Quentel excudebat unknown
158857770Kiøbenhaffn Matz Vingaard 1588-89. Folio. 39 x 27 cm. Samtidigt hellæderbind i brunt kalveskind over svært træ og med kanter i smig. Lettere ophøjede bind på ryg. Håndsyede kapitælbånd. Lille hak i skindet på nederste rygfelt. Med de 4 originale hængselsbeslag i støbt messing bevarede men den ene strop fornyet og den anden mangler. Permerne har begge blindtrykte arabesker i midterfeltet en stor arabesk og i hjørner og kanter 6 pyramideformede arabesker som alle er med en blindtrykt krone i pyramidens top. Permerne har mindre messingstifter med store hoveder til beskyttelse af bindet ved opslag. Marmoreret snit. Bindet er ganske velbevaret med kun lidt kantslid og let slid på de ophøjede rygbind. 22353i.e.354226159 blade. Komplet men uden de 3 blanke blade. Træskåret titelblad med tekst trykt i rødt i midterfeltet. Titelbladsvarianten med kongens kobberstukne portræt af Goltzius opklæbet på bagsiden en del eksemplarer udkom uden portrættet. Blad 2 med rigsvåbnet bladet er kantrepareret. 2 træskårne deltitelblade. Registerbladene med svag skjold i ydre marginer. De sidste 35 blade delvist omkantede for det meste i ydre marginer. Ganske få spredte brunpletter. Iøvrigt ganske lette brugsspor. Et udmærket velbevaret og komplet eksemplar bortset fra de 3 blanke.På forreste friblad er anført lidt af eksemplarets ejerhistorie fra 1819 - erhvervet af Mikkel Johannesson Fladebøe som her delvist klausulerer dens ejerskab til fremtidige ejere af gården Fladebøe . Senere synes den overgået til andre i slægten bosat i U.S.A. Olaf Albertsen Axel Albertsen Stanley Albertsen Sidney Albertsen. Folio. 39 x 27 cm. Contemporary brown full calf over heavy wooden boards with oblique edges. Sloghtly raised bands to spine. Hand-stitched capital bands. A small notch to the leather of bottom compartment of spine. With the four original brass clasps preserved but one strap has been renewed and the other is missing. Boards with large blindstamped centre-arabesque and six pyramid shaped arabesques to corners and edges all with a blindstamped crown on top. Large-headed bras spins to boards to protect the boards when open. Marbled edges. A bit of wear to edges and light wear to the raised bands. 22 353i.e.354 226 159 ff. Complete save for the three blank leaves. Woodcut title-page with centre-text printed in red. The title-page variant with the engraved portrait of the king by Goltzius mounted on verso. Several copies were issued without portrait and some were issued as here with the title-page mounted on verso. F. 2 with the royal arms restored at edges. Two woodcut helf-titles. The index-leaves with a vague damp stain to the outer margins. The last 35 leaves have been partly re-edged mostly at the very outer margins. A bit of light scattered brownspotting. Light signs of wear. An overall well preserved copy in- as well as externally. Front free end-paper with handwritten notes on provenance from 1819 onward – bought by Mikkel Johannesson Fladebøe who partly clauses the ownership of the copy to the future owners of the estate Fladebøe. It seems to have then passed to other generations of the same lineage located in The United States Olaf Albertsen Axel Albertsen Stanley Albertsen Sidney Albertsen. <br/><br/><em>The magnificent first printing of the second Danish-Norwegian Bible in folio. This the second Danish Bible in folio is also the first to be printed by a Dane. The scarce and famous "Frederik II-Bible" constitutes the magnum opus of the famed book printer Mads Vingaard "and the most extensive work of printing undertaken in Denmark during the sixteenth century. The book is profusely illustrated with woodcuts copied from a german Bible issued by Sigmund Feyerabend in Frankfurt a. M. 1560. The original woodcuts were made by the artist and craftsman Virgil Solis. Wide woodcut borders together with pictures using themes from the Scriptures surround the title pages and the illustrations. On the reverse of the first title page many copies have pasted in a portrait of Frederich II engraved by the Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius. However this portrait may also be found on a separate leaf." Thesaurus I.Lauritz Nielsen 405. - Thesaurus I 129. - Birkelund 34. </em> hardcover
1569Q42<p>Geneva: John Crispin 1569. 4to 8.125 x 5.75 in. The scarce <em>second edition</em> of the Geneva Bible in quarto. Printed in Geneva in Roman font with illustrations double-page maps and provenance of a famous paper maker.</p><p><strong>Description</strong></p><p>Lacks the first preliminary leaf <em>Calendar Historical</em> and begins with <em>To The Reader </em>1 p. <em>Of the Golden Nombre</em>… etc.3 pp. <em>A Supputation of the years </em>1 p. <em>A Table of the Cycle of the Sunne </em>1 p. <em>Kalendar </em>with a small woodcut at the beginning of each month 6 pp. <em>Fairies in France and elsewhere </em>1 p. The printed title page 1569 with decorative headpiece and Crispin's device. Text in two column Roman type with the complete set of illustrations and maps in the text. Bound with four of the additional double-page maps including the Wanderings of the Israelites Nu 33 Ezekiel's Temple Ez 48 Description of the Holie Land before NT title and the Description of the Countreis and Places before Acts. Also bound with the Degrees of Consanguinitie Lev 18 and the map at Joshua provided in facsimile. Printed New Testament title page 1568 with printer's device. Ends with the <em>Table</em> and the <em>Order of the Years</em> 1 p. First chapter woodcut initials head and tailpieces.</p><p><strong>Collation</strong></p><p>par.8 -par1 4 a-c4 d-z8 A-Z8 Aa-Gg8 Old Testament n3-8 Table of Names Aa-Bb4 Cc-Ss8 Tt3 New Testament. <em>Lacks</em> Apocrypha Psalter and first preliminary leaf.</p><p><strong>Binding</strong></p><p>Newly rebound in speckled brown calf. Elaborate blind tooling and rolls to boards within concentric frames. Spine with four raised bands and extensive blind tooling to compartments. One red morocco label with gilt-rules and the words "Holy Bible" letter in gilt and a date of 1569 letter in gilt to foot. New plain endpapers.</p><p><strong>Condition</strong></p><p>Overall a clean text; trimmed close with infrequent loss to first letter of the marginal notes; a-c small stain to lower gutter; Q7-R1 old tape repair with a couple of lines of text replaced in manuscript; T2-3 upper dark marginal stain impacting three lines of text; final map with a tear along fold; Tt1-3 last few leaves of tables with tape repairs to margins.</p><p><strong>Provenance</strong></p><p>Bookplate of James Whatman 1702-1759 on front pastedown with his signature on first blank leaf. On the next four blank pp. at the front Whatman described the history of the Geneva version in a neat hand likely on his own wove paper. Whatman produced high-quality white paper in the 1740s that was used by state papers and also used in printed books. He was the first paper maker in Europe to make wove paper.</p><p><strong>Note</strong></p><p>The second edition of the Geneva version printed in Geneva. The second edition is a smaller book than the 1560 first edition. The Apocrypha was removed from this copy likely by a zealous Puritan. The Psalter was an integral part of this edition and is lacking from this copy but four of the five maps are present.</p><p><strong>Scarcity</strong></p><p>RBH records only three copies at auction since 1910. OCLC shows only six copies in institutions.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>Herbert 130; ODNB 40776; STC 2106; not in USTC.</p> John Crispin hardcover
