architectural binding
[KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE].
The Holy Bible containing the bookes of the Olde & New Testament.
Cambridge, Printed by John Hayes. Printer to the Universitie, 1674.
Folio (42 x 27.5 cm); engraved title trimmed and laid onto paper, woodcut initials, bound without half-title, slightly toned with occasional light spotting; early nineteenth-century blue straight-grained morocco architectural binding, covers stamped in gilt with a view of King's College Chapel, Cambridge within gilt-roll borders, gilt spine in 5 compartments, all edges gilt, a little rubbed with some slight discolouration, very good.
ESTC R38709; Herbert 717.
Stock code 121982
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The Holy Bible
ARISTEAS of Marmora; DONE, John (translator).
[Letter of Aristeas].
[1633].
The scarce first edition in English of the Letter of Aristeas, the earliest account of the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, which contains the first mention of the library of Alexandria
£1,250.00
[GENEVA VERSION]; STERNHOLD & HOPKINS (Psalmes).
The Bible.
1589.
A handsome sixteeth-century edition of the Geneva Bible, finely bound in eighteenth-century gilt-panelled calf, without the Concordance, but with the Booke of Common Prayer and metrical Psalmes
£8,000.00
KEMPIS, Thomas à.
[Imitatio Christi].
1677.
A near fine example of an English semi-sombre binding enclosing Thomas à Kempis' great spiritual meditation, De Imitatione Christi in English translation
£2,250.00
