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LOT 164
SOLD €220,00

Biblia sacrosancta veteris, et novi testamenti, iuxta vulgatam editionem.

Lyon, printed by Michaël Sylvius for Johannes Frellonius, 1555, (8),477[=476],(26),(1 blank) leaves, with woodcut printer's mark on the title and on the last page, 17th-century vellum.

Title page restored and reinforced on spine, also with on both sides the stamp of the library of the Capuchins at Helmond. Leaf number 152 is omitted, but the quire in question, T, is complete; waterstained throughout the entire bookblock. Front board reset with new endpapers. Rare mid-16th-century bible, only a handful of copies traced at libraries worldwide. A digitised copy available online lacks the title page. Printed in two columns in a beautiful, very small type.

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