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Auction archive: Lot number 158

BIBLE, Polyglot. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta . London: Samuel Bagster, 1831.

Auction 14.12.2001
14 Dec 2001
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,880
Auction archive: Lot number 158

BIBLE, Polyglot. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta . London: Samuel Bagster, 1831.

Auction 14.12.2001
14 Dec 2001
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,880
Beschreibung:

BIBLE, Polyglot. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta . London: Samuel Bagster, 1831. 2 o (395 x 254 mm). Half-title. (A few leaves with soft creases at beginning.) Contemporary plum hard-grained morocco gilt, covers with three floral roll-borders, spine in seven compartments, with six raised bands, gilt-lettered and decorated, edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Provenance : William Van Mildert (armorial bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 16 August 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944. The most inclusive of the great Polyglots since the London, or Walton's, Polyglot of 1657 (see preceding lot). It contains the Old and New Testaments in eight languages, with the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Syrian New Testament added as an appendix. Darlow & Moule 1456.

Auction archive: Lot number 158
Auction:
Datum:
14 Dec 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

BIBLE, Polyglot. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta . London: Samuel Bagster, 1831. 2 o (395 x 254 mm). Half-title. (A few leaves with soft creases at beginning.) Contemporary plum hard-grained morocco gilt, covers with three floral roll-borders, spine in seven compartments, with six raised bands, gilt-lettered and decorated, edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Provenance : William Van Mildert (armorial bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 16 August 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944. The most inclusive of the great Polyglots since the London, or Walton's, Polyglot of 1657 (see preceding lot). It contains the Old and New Testaments in eight languages, with the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Syrian New Testament added as an appendix. Darlow & Moule 1456.

Auction archive: Lot number 158
Auction:
Datum:
14 Dec 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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