Auction 3 Part 2
Art, rare books and manuscripts - part 2
By Van de Wiele Auctions
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Mar 22, 2025
Groeninge 34, 8000 Brugge, Belgium
Auction Friday 21.03.2025
10 am N° 001-167
1.30 pm N° 168-625
Auction Saturday 22.03.2025
10 am N° 626-802
1.30 pm N° 803-1227
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LOT 893:
[BIBLIA GRAECA]
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Sold for: €360
Price including buyer’s premium:
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462.60
Start price:
€
450
Estimated price :
€450 - €600
Buyer's Premium: 28.5%
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[BIBLIA GRAECA]
He Kaine Diatheke. Novum Testamentum, juxta exemplar Millianum. Typis Joannis Baskerville
Oxford
Clarendon Press
1763
8vo, [4]-676 pp, Half title and title in Greek and Latin, text in Greek. (some spotting to first lvs.) Contemp. goldtooled tree calf (corner sl. bumped), covers with triple ornamental border, richly gilt spine (spine neatly repaired)
Ref. Darlow & Moule, II 4756 ; Brunet V, 740. "The only major work produced in John Baskerville's "great primer" Greek type, issued simultaneously in 8vo and 4to eds. After the success of his Virgil in 1758, Baskerville [1706-1775] was commissioned to produce a new Greek type for the Clarendon Press in 1758" (Quaritch). The Greek text is that edited by John Mill (1645-1707)
