Bible, Latin. Biblia Sacra, engraved title, margins cropped with loss to running titles, some browning and staining, contemporary polished morocco, the covers with the initials 'E.R.' in gilt, extremities worn, spine chipped with loss, 12mo, London: Milonis Flesher and Rob. Young, 1640 PROVENANCE: Edward Rolfe (1649-1726) was twice Mayor of Kings Lynn and a friend of Robert Walpole. Edward Rolfe's great, great grandfather, Robert Rolfe was the brother of Eustace Rolfe, grandfather of the colonist John Rolfe (1585-1622), who married Pocahontas. A pencil note attests that a grandson of Edward Rolfe, Edmund Keene, was Bishop of Ely and 'who owned this bible when at Caius College in 1737'.
Bible, Latin. Biblia Sacra, engraved title, margins cropped with loss to running titles, some browning and staining, contemporary polished morocco, the covers with the initials 'E.R.' in gilt, extremities worn, spine chipped with loss, 12mo, London: Milonis Flesher and Rob. Young, 1640 PROVENANCE: Edward Rolfe (1649-1726) was twice Mayor of Kings Lynn and a friend of Robert Walpole. Edward Rolfe's great, great grandfather, Robert Rolfe was the brother of Eustace Rolfe, grandfather of the colonist John Rolfe (1585-1622), who married Pocahontas. A pencil note attests that a grandson of Edward Rolfe, Edmund Keene, was Bishop of Ely and 'who owned this bible when at Caius College in 1737'.
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