BIBLE. - Lot 61

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BIBLE. - Lot 61
BIBLE. Biblia sacra vulgatæ editionis. Col. Agrippinæ : Sumpt. Hered. Bern. Gualteri et Sociorum [Cologne: heirs of Bernhard Wolter], 1639. - 6 parts in five volumes in-24, 94 x 48: title-frontispiece, (32 ff.), engraved title, 413 pp.; title-frontispiece, 528 pp.; title-frontispiece, 558 pp.; title-frontispiece, 632 pp.; title-frontispiece, 559, 92 pp., (77 ff.). Red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine, gilt lace inside, gilt edges on marbling, case (Chambolle-Duru). Delaveau-Hillard, Bibles imprimées du XVe au XVIIIe siècle, n° 1027. Beautiful small edition of this Latin bible in the sixto-Clementine version, divided into six parts: Pentateuch, Joshua-Chronicles, Ezra-Ecclesiasticus, Prophets-Maccabees, New Testament, Apocrypha and Index. It is illustrated with six engraved titles, five at the head of the first five volumes and one for the Pentateuch in the first volume after the first thirty-two unpaginated leaves. Only the title of the last part is printed, bearing the address "Coloniæ Agrippinæ, Sumpt. Viduæ Bernardi Gualteri & Sociorum" and the date of 1638. Margins a little short, with occasional damage to the running titles and notes.
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