BIBLE. — BIBLIA LATINA. Textus biblie. No place, no year [co - Lot 30

BIBLE. — BIBLIA LATINA. Textus biblie. No place, no year [colophon: Lyon, Jean Crespin], 1527. Gothic folio, reverse-tanned leather, ribbed spine (17th-century binding). A beautiful Lyon edition printed in Gothic type, with the title in red and black set within an engraved border. Remarkable woodcut illustrations including numerous vignettes and a large full-page woodcut depicting the Nativity on folio 212. (Mortimer, Harvard, no. 66 for the 1528 reprint.) Handwritten bookplate dated 1580 by Bonet Alloys. A handwritten note crossed out on the verso of the last text leaf. The last leaf is missing (presumably blank, as in the 1528 reprint). Some foxing, water stains, and wormholes. Title reinforced in the margins, with the top trimmed and a crease at the upper corner; reinforcements in the margins of a few leaves. Ink stains on the binding; significant loss of leather on the front cover.

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