Bible. Polyglot. BIBLIA SACRA POLYGLOTTA... EDIDIT BRIANUS WALTONUS. LONDON: THOMAS ROYCROFT,1657 6 volumes, folio (446 x 282mm.), ruled in red throughout, parallel Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan (Pentateuch), Ethiopic (Job to Malachi and New Testament), Persian (Gospels) and Arabic texts, additional title in an architectural frame by Hollar, portrait by Lombart, double-page engraved maps, 4 engraved plates (3 double-page), woodcut illustrations and initials, uniform contemporary calf gilt, couple of small wormholes through latter half of vol. 1, occasional rusting and spotting, some small closed tears, a few pages with folds--Castell, Edmund. Lexicon heptaglotton. London: Thomas Roycroft, 1669, 2 volumes, title-page printed in red and black, engraved portrait by William Faithorne woodcut initials, near contemporary calf, together 8 volumes, binding rather worn a fine copy of the london, or walton, polyglot bible, a monument of english scholarship and typography.
Bible. Polyglot. BIBLIA SACRA POLYGLOTTA... EDIDIT BRIANUS WALTONUS. LONDON: THOMAS ROYCROFT,1657 6 volumes, folio (446 x 282mm.), ruled in red throughout, parallel Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan (Pentateuch), Ethiopic (Job to Malachi and New Testament), Persian (Gospels) and Arabic texts, additional title in an architectural frame by Hollar, portrait by Lombart, double-page engraved maps, 4 engraved plates (3 double-page), woodcut illustrations and initials, uniform contemporary calf gilt, couple of small wormholes through latter half of vol. 1, occasional rusting and spotting, some small closed tears, a few pages with folds--Castell, Edmund. Lexicon heptaglotton. London: Thomas Roycroft, 1669, 2 volumes, title-page printed in red and black, engraved portrait by William Faithorne woodcut initials, near contemporary calf, together 8 volumes, binding rather worn a fine copy of the london, or walton, polyglot bible, a monument of english scholarship and typography.
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