Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

30 ● (BIBLE IN DUTCH.) Biblia; dat is, De gantsche H. Schrifture. [24], 288; 27; [2], 138; [14], 166; [4], 76 leaves, including engraved title incorporating view of Amsterdam at bottom. Mostly printed in black letter. 5 parts in one volume. Folio, 352x221 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with metal center- and cornerpieces and catches, lacking clasps, front cover detached; contents toned with occasional soiling, ink accession number and pencil shelf number on verso of general title, dark stain in lower margins in the Apocrypha, clear tear in last leaf, free endpapers lacking. Booklabel of John Howell. Amsterdam:Theunis Jacobsz. et al., 1641 [300/500] States-General version; without the maps found in some copies. Cf. Darlow & Moule 3309. 31 ● (BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The.holie.Bible. Numerous text woodcuts, chiefly after the illustrations byVirgil Solis for the 1560 Frankfurt Luther Bible. [25] (of [26]), 128; 185 (of [186]); 204; 118; 149 (of [150]) leaves, with the general title, 14 other preliminaries, and 12 text leaves supplied in facsimile; lacks blank after preliminaries, Job, and Revelation. Mostly printed in black letter. 5 parts in one volume. Folio, 380x262 mm, old calf over wooden boards with brass center- and cornerpieces, rebacked, missing 3 cornerpieces from rear cover; varying soiling and marginal dampstaining, worst on opening leaves, some leaves cropped or remargined with loss to sidenotes or other text, several leaves silked, corners torn off F1 and F6-8 in second part, restored with text in facsimile, and off O4 in fourth part with text loss. SOLD AS IS . (London: R. Jugge), [1568] [2,000/3,000] FIRST EDITION OF THE BISHOPS ’ BIBLE , the most lavishly illustrated folio Bible in English, which replaced the Great Bible for church use. Luborsky & Ingram/STC 2099. Herbert 125. BIBLES, continued 31