[BIBLIA]. Novum Testamentum. [Graece]. Ex... - Lot 279 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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[BIBLIA]. Novum Testamentum. [Graece]. Ex... - Lot 279 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
[BIBLIA]. Novum Testamentum. [Graece]. Ex Bibliotheca Regia. Paris, Robert Estienne, 1568-1569. 2 volumes in-16 (114 x 67 mm) of 16 ff.n.ch., 494 pp., 1 f.n.ch. (blank) for volume I ; 342 pp. 21 ff.n.ch. (first blank). Red morocco, wide lace on the boards, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges (18th century binding). Schreiber, 239; Darlow-Moule, 4633; Renouard, Estienne, 171:1; Adams, B-1670. New edition, based on the so-called "O mirificam" editions of the Greek Testaments of 1546 and 1549. Here both volumes bear the date 1568 on the titles. "A reissue of Robert Estienne's two 'O mirificam' Greek Testaments of 1546 and 1549, with the addition of the critical notes from the 1550 folio. This edition is interesting from a typographical point: it is printed in a slightly reduced version of the smallest font of the Royal Greek types, and it contains, besides the text, a table of chapters printed in exceedingly minute Greek type, practically a reproduction of the small text type, but on a much smaller scale. Some copies have the sate 1568 on the title of the first part while others have 1569, the title of the second part is dated 1568" (Schreiber). A very fine copy, finely bound in the 18th century in a lace binding.
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