Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

31 30 c (BIBLE IN GREEK.) Novum Testamentum Graecum. Edited by John Mills and Ludwig Kuster. [20], 168; [2], 632 pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 357x236 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century leather, worn, joints cracked, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; contents lightly dampwrinkled with occasional toning, small wormhole in blank gutter of preliminaries, dampstain in blank outer margin of canon tables and opening leaves of Matthew. Signature of John Merrick of St. John’s College, Oxford, on front free endpaper. Amsterdam & Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, 1710 [400/600] First edition of Kuster’s revision of the 1707 Mills New Testament, “a great advance on any of its predecessors, as Mills added to it a critical apparatus containing the readings of nearly 100 MSS.” (ODCC). Darlow & Moule 4735 (1723 edition). 31 c (BIBLE IN LATIN.) [Complete color facsimile of the 42-line Vulgate printed by Johann Gutenberg circa 1455.] 2 volumes. Folio, 448x302 mm, black morocco handsomely gilt with panel design on covers, black morocco doublures with onlaid red silk crucifix, red silk endleaves; contents immaculate; black morocco slipcases matching the cover design. (Paterson, N.J.: Pageant Books, 1961) [2,000/3,000] one of 1000 sets of a facsimile based on the 1911 Insel Verlag edition reproducing richly illuminated copies at libraries in Fulda and Berlin. The bindings are unsigned but believed to be a unique deluxe set by the firm of A. Horowitz & Sons, which produced the original edition bindings for the Pageant facsimile.