Lot 282

[SARPI, Paolo (1552-1623)]. The History of the Council of Trent, London, 1676, folio, contemporary calf (rebacked). With 7 other works in 9 vols. (10)

Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer price: £1,500
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

[SARPI, Paolo (1552-1623)].  The History of the Council of Trent. Containing Eight Books ... Whereunto is Added the Life of the learned Author; and the History of the Inquisition, translated by Nathanael Brent. London: Printed by J. Macock, for Samuel Mearne, John Martyn, and Henry Herringham, 1676. Folio (316 x 195mm). Title printed in red and black, initials (some mainly marginal staining and spotting). Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed). The title page gives the author's name as Pietro Soave Polano, a near-anagram of Paolo Sarpi Veneto. Wing 5696. With 7 other works in 9 vols., namely [The Holy Bible] ([London, by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1591], black letter, lacks all before first page of Genesis [A1] but title of New Testament present, many leaves defective, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached, the first printing of "The Bishops' Bible"), [The Bible (London, Christopher Barker, 1599], lacks all before A2 including title and some leaves at the end, but title ("This Second part ...") before the Psalms and title to New Testament present, contemporary calf, worn, lower cover detached), The Psalter, or Psalmes of David, After the Translation of the Great Bible (London, Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1622, title within woodcut border, black letter, initials, later half calf, worn, covers detached), The Holy Bible (Oxford, Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1786, 4to, contemporary calf, heavily rubbed and scuffed), Novum Testamentum Græce. Textum ad fidem codicum, versionum et patrum recensuit et lectionis varietatem adjecit D. Jo. Jac. Griesbach ... Editio nova (London, Impensis J. Mackinlay, et Cuthell et Martin, 1809-10, 2 vols., attractively-bound in contemporary polished calf gilt, although the spine of vol. one detached and with white library numbers to both), The Holy Bible ... with Copious Notes, Explanatory, Practical, and Evangelical, Selected from the Commentary of the Rev. Matthew Henry, by the Rev. John Kershaw (Oxford, Printed and Published by Bartlett, Newman, and Bartlett, 1817, folio, engraved plates, contemporary calf) and The Holy Bible, Translated from the Latin Vulgate ... First Published by the English College, at Douay, A.D. 1609, and the New Testament, first published at the English College at Rheims, A.D. 1582 ... Second Edition (Dublin, Printed by William Pickering and Son, for Thomas Haydock, David Wogan, and John Coyne, [c.1820], 2 vols., contemporary calf, rebacked preserving old spines). The lot sold not subject to return. (10)


Condition Report:: Dates of Douay Bibles - 1820 as in description 

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