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Biblia Latina... [Bible in Latin] Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 30 July, 1477 Folio, 51 lines; double column; types 4:160G, 3:110aG. Rubricated; headlines in red in upright bastarda script; fol. 2/1r with 12-line floriated initial F illuminated in green & pink with foliate marginal extensions, the lower margin filled with sprays & flowers in colors with white tracery; opening page of Proverbs with 1 11-line initials, 1 with floral extensions. - 467 (of 468) leaves; lacking 1st blank. Modern morocco over wooden boards, by Pratt, extremities rubbed, scrapes, inner hinge cracked. Internally very good, with wide margins and the paper very crisp. The second Koberger Bible, a... $75,000.00

A complete set of all the English Chronicles, as listed below. [(Chronicles, English).] London: various publishers, 1724–1815. 28 vols., large 4to, 24 vols. in full olive morocco, gilt-panelled backstrips, raised bands, red labels, gilt edges, 4 vols. in full red morocco to match. A very fine set, with all the de luxe illuminated plates not found in most copies, of great rarity thus. See Lowndes II, 1086-87: “the Quarto Series of Chronicles, published by the London trade, mostly from the old folios, under the editorial superintendence of Sir Henry Ellis, E.V. Utterson, R.H. Evans, F. Douce, [T.F.] Dibdin, and others.” Lowndes continues that the series “was completed in 15 vols. of Chronicles, and... $28,750.00