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The Greek and English Testament. He kaine Diatheke ex editione Stephani tertia, 1550 : the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: according to the Authorized version. The Greek and English texts arranged in parallel columns. Greek New Testament Bible, James Scholefield.

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The Greek and English Testament. He kaine Diatheke ex editione Stephani tertia, 1550 : the New Testament of our Lord...

London: Cambridge Warehouse, and Cambridge: Deighton, Bell & Co, 1879. "New edition, Revised and Improved." A reprint of the 1857 edition. Large Paper edition. Like its 1857 predecessor, this edition was printed on Large Paper with an astonishing proportion of text to page size. The text block, set entirely on... Read More

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Biblia Sacra. Vulgata Editione, translat. ex Hebrae Sanctis Pagnini; Romana ex Setuag. & Chaldaicae Paraphrasis Trans. Congesta Fratris Forunati Fanensis [Fortunato Scacchi] … Tribus distincta partibus. Latin Bible.

Biblia Sacra. Vulgata Editione, translat. ex Hebrae Sanctis Pagnini; Romana ex Setuag. & Chaldaicae Paraphrasis Trans. Congesta Fratris Forunati Fanensis...

Venezia: Antonio Pinelli, 1609. A gathering of Latin translations: The Vulgate printed after an edition printed in Antwerp in 1605; the translation from the Hebrew by St. Pagnini after the Lyon edition of 1528; and the Septuagint after the edition of Rome, 1508. Scarce in institutions: OCLC locates 3 copies in... Read More

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Biblia Sacrosancta ad Hebraicam veritatem, & probatissimorum ac manuscriptorum exemplarium fidem diligenter recognita & restituta. Latin Bible.

Biblia Sacrosancta ad Hebraicam veritatem, & probatissimorum ac manuscriptorum exemplarium fidem diligenter recognita & restituta.

Basilaea [Basel]: Nicolaum Bryling [Nicolaus Brylinger], 1557. Brylinger published the only 16th century edition of Luther’s Bible in Switzerland, published one of the earliest Greek and Latin diglot Bibles, and published a series of 8vo editions of the Bible with diglot and Greek-only text which was popular with students. Darlow... Read More

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Psalterium [with] Commune sanctorum. Psalms Bible.

An Incunable of the Utmost Rarity

Psalterium [with] Commune sanctorum.

Ulm: Johann Zainer, [c. 1480]. An Incunable of the Utmost Rarity. Johann Zainer the Elder (fl. 1472-93) established the first printing press at Ulm, where his first book is dated 1473. This pocket psalter by Zainer is undated; the colophon gives only the printer’s name and the city in which... Read More

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Dies Ir [AND] Stabat Mater. John Adams Dix, trans.

Dies Ir [AND] Stabat Mater.

Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1875; 1868. Revised edition; first edition. With presentation ALS from Dix to Dexter A. Hawkins bound in. General John Adams Dix (1798-1879) entered the U.S. infantry in 1812, and served various military and political posts through the years leading up to the Civil War, including postmaster of New... Read More

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Paraphrases Des. Erasmi Roterodami in epistolas Pauli ad Rhomanos, Corinthios & Galatas … [bound with] … ad Ephesios, Philippenses, & Colossenses, & in duas ad Thessalonicenses… [bound with] ad Timotheum duas, ad Titum unam, & ad Philemonem unam …. Desiderius Erasmus.

Paraphrases Des. Erasmi Roterodami in epistolas Pauli ad Rhomanos, Corinthios & Galatas … [bound with] … ad Ephesios, Philippenses, &...

Basel: Johann Froben, January; March; and March, 1520. First collected editions. First collected editions of these “Paraphrases” of the letters of Paul, which were undertaken shortly after Erasmus’s revolutionary edition of the Greek New Testament of 1516. As part of that monumental reconstruction of the New Testament, Erasmus’ intention was... Read More

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A Noble Fragment. Being a Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455. With a Bibliographical Essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Gutenberg Bible, A. Edward Newton.

The Birth of Christ: A Leaf From the Gutenberg Bible

A Noble Fragment. Being a Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455. With a Bibliographical Essay by A. Edward Newton. New...

[Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, Johann Fust, and Peter Schoeffer, 1455]. Edition limited to 600 copies, designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by William Edwin Rudge. The Birth of Christ: A Leaf From the Gutenberg Bible. UNQUESTIONABLY ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SINGLE LEAVES OF THE GUTENBERG BIBLE, BEING LUKE'S ACCOUNT OF... Read More

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Opera Omnia duobus tomis distincta. Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus.

Opera Omnia duobus tomis distincta.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Hackius, et al, 1696. First collected edition. Giraldi, Giglio Gregorio (Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus) 1470-1552) was an Italian scholar and poet, born at Ferrara, "where he early distinguished himself by his talents and acquirements. he removed to Naples, here he lived on familiar terms with Jovianus Pontanus and... Read More

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Herodiani Imperatorum Romanorum prclare gestis Lib VIII. Greci & Latini [title page in Greek and Latin]. Herodianus.

A Rare Herodian, 1543

Herodiani Imperatorum Romanorum prclare gestis Lib VIII. Greci & Latini [title page in Greek and Latin].

Basile: Excudebat Henricus Petrus, March, 1543. Second Petrus edition. A Rare Herodian, 1543. Rare edition of the 3rd century historian's account the chaotic period immediately following Marcus Aurelius' death through the brief reign of Gordianus III. The scholarly printer of Basle, Henricus Petrus, had first printed Herodian's text in 1535... Read More

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Herodoti Halicarnassei historiae lib. IX, & de vita Homeri libellus …Ex Ctesia excerptae historiae. Icones quarundam memorabilium structurarum [bound after:] [Herodotou tou Halikarnasseos historia, e, Historion logoi 9, epigraphomenoi Mousai]. Herodotus.

Herodoti Halicarnassei historiae lib. IX, & de vita Homeri libellus …Ex Ctesia excerptae historiae. Icones quarundam memorabilium structurarum [bound after:]...

[Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus, 1566; 1570. First edition of the Estienne Herodotus, the Greek text and the Latin translation by Valla. The four plates (here printed on three leaves), represent the Tower of Babel; a plan of the city of Babylon; the Bridge of Babylon... Read More

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