Sale 2521 - Early Printed, Travel, Scientific & Medical Books, October 24, 2019

17 c   (BIBLE IN DANISH.) Vor Herres og Frelseres Jesu Christi Nye Testamente, efter den Aar 1647. udgangne Version . . . Det IX Oplag. 357, [3] pages. bound with : [PONTOPPIDAN, ERIK.] Sandhed til Gudfrygtighed, udi en . . . Forklaring over Sal. Doct. Mort. Luthers Liden Catechismo. [8], 208 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 12mo, 143x80 mm, contemporary leather with brass bosses and catches, lacking clasps, extremities scuffed; contents browned with occasional soiling and minor stains, last leaf of catechism torn in margins with text loss, notes by contemporary and later owners on endleaves, the last dated 1941. Copenhagen: Royal Orphanage Press, 1764; 1763 [300/500] New Testament based on the 1647 Resen-Svane version, bound with a popular catechism first published in 1737. 18 c   (BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Byble. Woodcut text illustrations. 4-113; 145, [1], 37, 44-76; 86 leaves, with numbering irregularities; lacks all before Kk14 (1 Kings 21:19), leaves 3G5-3H1 (Ecclesiasticus 22:11-31:17), and all after ²P2 (Galatians 4:31). Printed in black letter. Folio, 282x188 mm, early 19th-century panelled calf, quite worn, front joint cracked, cords intact; conspicuous soiling, marginal dampstaining, dog-earing, and paper corrosion along edges at beginning and end, occasional soiling and stains elsewhere, scattered marginal tears, 3E3 unevenly trimmed with text loss at top. Bound in front are 13 leaves from an unidentified contemporary edition (60 lines, numbered verses) with text of 1 Kings 1-21:7. Armorial bookplates of Lancelot Haslope and the Rev. Francis Forbes Savage. sold as is . [London: Jhon Daye and William Seres, 17 August 1549] [2,000/3,000] Matthew Bible, combining the Tyndale and Coverdale translations, edited by John Rogers under the pseudonym Thomas Matthew and first published in 1537. Herbert 74; STC 2078. 17 18 bibles , continued