Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

18 c   (BIBLE INANGLO-SAXON.) Heptateuchus, Liber Job, et AngeliumNicodemi; Anglo-Saxonice. Historiae Judith Fragmentum; Dano-Saxonice. Edited by Edward Thwaites. Engraved frontispiece. [8], 168, 32 pages. Text printed in Anglo-Saxon type apart from front matter in Latin. 8vo, 225x147 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked retaining most of worn original backstrip, endpapers renewed; light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end. Contemporary ownership inscription (“Ex dono Ingeniosissimi Editoris”) of Charles Williams of Queen’s College, Oxford, on front flyleaf; later signature of J. Nourse; modern booklabel of C. E. Fell. Darlow & Moule 1606; Wing B2198. Oxford: at the Theater, 1698 [400/600] 22 19 18 BIBLES LOTS 18 - 33 19 c   (BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke . . . and also a most profitable Concordance. General and NT titles within woodcut historiated border. [2], 434; [4], 441-554; [78] (of [82]) leaves; lacks G3-6 in the Concordance. Mostly printed in black letter. 4to, 205x151 mm, 19th-century pebble-grain cloth with modern textured leather back and corners; contents toned with varying soiling and dampstaining, margins trimmed entering some sidenotes, headlines, and direction lines, marginal restoration on preliminaries and first leaf of Genesis causing slight text loss, hole through several words on B6, P5, K1, S5, and 3L2, dark stain on K4, dark vertical ink streak on 3D3, scored contemporary signatures on last preliminary leaf in NT, tear in 3S2 repaired slightly obscuring text, upper outer corner torn off 3V8 in Colossians with substantial text loss. London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1592 [800/1,200] Geneva version. Herbert 211. Bound with 1592 Windet/Daye edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical Psalms, lacking all after F2.