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Auction archive: Lot number 150

BIBLIA SACRA POLYGLOTTA. LONDON: THOMAS ROYCROFT, [1553–] 1557

Estimate
US$7,000 - US$10,000
Price realised:
US$6,250
Auction archive: Lot number 150

BIBLIA SACRA POLYGLOTTA. LONDON: THOMAS ROYCROFT, [1553–] 1557

Estimate
US$7,000 - US$10,000
Price realised:
US$6,250
Beschreibung:

Bible, Polyglot [The London, or Walton, Polyglot] BIBLIA SACRA POLYGLOTTA, COMPLECTENTIA TEXTUS ORIGINALES, HEBRAICUM, CUM PENTATEUCHO SAMARITANO, CHALDAICHUM, GRAECUM. VERSIONUMQUE ANTIQUARUM, SAMARITANAE GRAECAE LXXII INTERP., CHALDAICAE, SYRIACAE, ARABICAE, AETHIOPICAE, PERSICAE, VULG. LAT. QUICQUID COMPARARI POTERAT. … EDIDIT BRIANUS VVALTONUS. LONDON: THOMAS ROYCROFT, [1553–] 1557 6 volumes, folio (17 1/2 x 11 in.; 446 x 278 mm). Parallel Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan (Pentateuch), Ethiopic (Job to Malachi, NT), Persian (Gospels) and Arabic texts, with Aramaic (Chaldaean) Targums in vol. 4, general title-page printed in red and black, additional engraved historiated architechtonic title-page, 2 full-sheet engraved maps, and 4 engraved plates (some folding or double-page) by Wenceslas Hollar, a few woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials; browned throughout, occasionally severely, general title with some marginal tears, title to vol. 2 defective and restored at foot. Contemporary blind-tolled German pigskin with central clerical panels on the covers, slightly later maroon morocco spine labels; worn, soiled, vol. 1 rebacked.

Auction archive: Lot number 150
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

Bible, Polyglot [The London, or Walton, Polyglot] BIBLIA SACRA POLYGLOTTA, COMPLECTENTIA TEXTUS ORIGINALES, HEBRAICUM, CUM PENTATEUCHO SAMARITANO, CHALDAICHUM, GRAECUM. VERSIONUMQUE ANTIQUARUM, SAMARITANAE GRAECAE LXXII INTERP., CHALDAICAE, SYRIACAE, ARABICAE, AETHIOPICAE, PERSICAE, VULG. LAT. QUICQUID COMPARARI POTERAT. … EDIDIT BRIANUS VVALTONUS. LONDON: THOMAS ROYCROFT, [1553–] 1557 6 volumes, folio (17 1/2 x 11 in.; 446 x 278 mm). Parallel Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan (Pentateuch), Ethiopic (Job to Malachi, NT), Persian (Gospels) and Arabic texts, with Aramaic (Chaldaean) Targums in vol. 4, general title-page printed in red and black, additional engraved historiated architechtonic title-page, 2 full-sheet engraved maps, and 4 engraved plates (some folding or double-page) by Wenceslas Hollar, a few woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials; browned throughout, occasionally severely, general title with some marginal tears, title to vol. 2 defective and restored at foot. Contemporary blind-tolled German pigskin with central clerical panels on the covers, slightly later maroon morocco spine labels; worn, soiled, vol. 1 rebacked.

Auction archive: Lot number 150
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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