Lot 14 , [Bible - An earlier 17th Century Cambridge KJB] The Holy Bible Containing The Old Testament And the New: Newly Translated out of the original Tongues... Appointed to be read in Churches.

[Bible - An earlier 17th Century Cambridge KJB] The Holy Bible Containing The Old Testament And the New: Newly Translated out of the original Tongues... Appointed to be read in Churches. title with printer's engraved device and within decorated border, head and tailpiece decorations, decorated initial letters, black letter, Apocrypha with drophead title, NT title (as general one); lacks Genealogies (and map). Signatures: q8, A-Z8, Aa-Zz8, Aaa-Lll8, Mmm4; [16],918pp. recently rebound blind decorated chocolate calf, gilt lettered and blind decorated panelled spine with sm. gilt crosses in 4 compartments, chocolate endpapers and some added blanks, 4to. contained in unlettered buckram wrapper with fabric ties. Printed by the Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1637.
£300-400

Condition:
Herbert 514 (calling for Genealogies and map); bndg. v.g., e/ps replaced; the usual sm. stains and marks etc (non obscuring text); title verso with contemp. note (show through onto recto at head) and some edge fraying (just affects dec. border lwr. rh); few leaves frayed at fore-edge in few cases just affecting notes, a few cut close/ shaved/cropped affecting headlines, but overall a good text. Hodge family notes (early 19th cent.) on 2 commencing blanks.