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BIBLE, in Latin -- Biblia , edited by Robert Estienne. Paris: Robert Stephanus, 1540 [part III dated 1539; part IV dated 1538]. 4 parts in 2 volumes, 2° (416 x 279mm). Titles to each part with woodcut allegorical illustrations, large criblé initials, woodcut illustrations including 5 full-page, ruled in red throughout. (Minor marginal stain to first and last few leaves, otherwise a clean, crisp copy.) 17th-century calf, spine gilt, gilt arms on covers (rubbed and crazed, joints cracked, head- and tailcaps defective). Provenance : Bishop Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe (1605-1671; binding cf. Olivier 1525) -- William Trumbull (engraved armorial bookplate).
BIBLE, in Latin -- Biblia , edited by Robert Estienne. Paris: Robert Stephanus, 1540 [part III dated 1539; part IV dated 1538]. 4 parts in 2 volumes, 2° (416 x 279mm). Titles to each part with woodcut allegorical illustrations, large criblé initials, woodcut illustrations including 5 full-page, ruled in red throughout. (Minor marginal stain to first and last few leaves, otherwise a clean, crisp copy.) 17th-century calf, spine gilt, gilt arms on covers (rubbed and crazed, joints cracked, head- and tailcaps defective). Provenance : Bishop Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe (1605-1671; binding cf. Olivier 1525) -- William Trumbull (engraved armorial bookplate). WIDE-MARGINED COPY . 'The third Estienne folio Bible, for which the text was revised from additional MS sources; a list given at the end of the preface enumerates at least 16 MSS and 3 printed editions. This edition contains the first printing of the Prayer of Manasses, in Greek and Latin. It is the text of this monumental edition which became the foundation of the official Roman vulgate ... This is the only illustrated Bible issued by Robert Estienne, and the second of only five illustrated books which he produced' (Schreiber). Adams B-1022; Armstrong 72-75; Bernard 215-16; Darlow & Moule 6117; Schreiber 59.