Lot 290 , [A Sixteenth Century Geneva Bible-The Bible that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrewe and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languag

° [A Sixteenth Century Geneva Bible-The Bible that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrewe and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages....] i.e. lacks the general title and the 6 preliminary leaves. With 5 maps (1 folded, 4 in text), several text engraved illus., decorated initials; main text followed by: Order of the Yeres....a Perfite Supputation; also The Whole Booke of Psalmes...(incomplete; John Day, 1576); (?) 18th century gilt-decorated panelled calf, with gilt ruled panelled spine, 4to. (imprinted at London by Christopher Barkar....1577)
£250-350

Condition:
Herbert 148; d-column printing; pagination (text complete)-360, 76 (Apocrypha) and (2), 115ff. The Order of the Yeres (etc.) is complete with (11) ff.; The Psalmes with pictorial architectural title-imprinted at London by John Day.....1576, (5), 76pp. only-ending at Psalm CXIX. NT. title (Christopher Barkar, 1577) with engraved illus. and printer's device at end. OT. some damage to commencing leaves f.1 mostly intact, some loss to notes and elsewhere, f2 some notes loss (map etc. intact), ff. 3-12 some loss at corners and lwr. margins, f.13 loss lwr. margin and some other text, f24 loss to some fore marginal notes, some misnumbering/misplacing ff. 133 and 190 but complete, f.205 sm. hole sl. loss and clean tear, f.245 clean tear, some headlines cropped in earlier part; NT. f.2 mostly clean tear some loss margnl. note, f.16 sm. tear affects notes, ff.37-39 marked staining (mostly marginal), f.62 (fld.map) cropped along lwr edge, some other cropping/cut close; intermittent stains (both bks.), but gen. good; late 18th cent. inscriptions front e/p., later on front blank and at end

Sold for £1,800