Live auction - Lot 929
[Bible commentary]
Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti usque ad extremum templi et reipublicae judaicae excidium. Una cum rerum Asiaticarum et Aegyptiacarum chronico [...]. Editio tertia [...].
Bremen, H. Brauer, 1686
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
2 parts in 1 vol. folio: [108]-688, [4]-126 pp. (wormholes throughout in lower margin and from p. 529 on in the text (some big), foxing, some marginal dampstains).
Cont. vellum, flat spine titled in ink, red sprinkled edges.
Third edition (1st 1750, London) of this famous work by Usher (1581-1656), Anglican bishop of Armagh, biblical scholar and theologian. Edited by A. Lubin. The second part is a "Chronologia sacra", edited by Th. Barlow. Text within ruled border and in two columns for the chronological tables. Title printed in black and red. Copy with extensive contemporary ms. notes in Latin, chronological table and genealogical trees (Jacob and Herod's families and the Maccabees). Ref. VD-17 23:691139X. Prov. Libr. stamps.