£2,000
The Bassandyne Bible, the First Bible Printed in Scotland, Geneva Version. The Newe (sic) Testament [...]/Conferred diligently with the Greke (sic), and best approved translations with divers languages, At Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas Bassandyne, 1576, [bound with, as posthumously issued] [The Old Testament, Alexander Arbuthnet, 1579], printed in parallel columns, NT title-page centred by the arms of Scotland, NT collates A-X⁶, Y²; signatures X onwards with dormant worm trails at lower-left gutter/lower-margin, its fore margins repaired, but without loss of marginal notes, upper-right damp-stained throughout yet not affecting legibility of text; OT defective, lacking all before a1, a1 to [b4] repaired, unexamined thereafter, contemporary calf boards repaired and relaid on morocco, traces of blind-tooling and of previous metal mounts, morocco reback with gilt-lettered label, dated foot, crown folio in 6s (32.5cm x 22.5cm), [Herbert 158].
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