Live auction - Lot 914
[Erasmus - Bible - N.T.]
Novum testamentum Iesu Christi.
Strasbourg, Th. Rihel, [c. 1560]
€ 500 / 700
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Lot description
8vo: [328] ff. (toned, marginal dampstaining, some spotting).
18th-c. tinted vellum, flat spine (rubbed, front joint splitting). Good copy.
Very rare later ed. of Erasmus’ Latin version of the New Testament. Woodcut mark on title. Illustrated with 158 woodcuts in text, some signed "CV" (Cornelius Visscher). Ref. VD-16 B-4295. - Bibles Paris 4428. - Muller (Rihel) 118. - Not in Adams, Darlow/Moule, De Reuck, Erasmus Online, STC German (BL). Prov. Old name on title "I.I. Sartorius" (the German or the Dutch theologian?). - Old ownership entry on title partly crossed out.