Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 260

FULKE (WILLIAM)
A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holie Scriptures into the English Tong, against the manifolde cavils, frivolous quarels, and impudent slaunders of Gregorie Martin, one of the readers of Popish divinitie in the trayterous Seminarie of Rhemes, 2 parts in 1 vol., Henrie Bynneman, 1583

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,295 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

FULKE (WILLIAM)

A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holie Scriptures into the English Tong, against the manifolde cavils, frivolous quarels, and impudent slaunders of Gregorie Martin, one of the readers of Popish divinitie in the trayterous Seminarie of Rhemes, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut device on title, printed side-notes in Hebrew, later vellum, title inked on spine, yapp edges (with old tie holes), upper hinge weakened [ESTC S102715], 8vo, Henrie Bynneman, 1583

Footnotes

Fulke's important treatise in defence of Protestant translations of the Bible, in particular responding to attacks upon them made by the Roman Catholic priest and biblical translator Gregory Martin. This copy has the dedication leaf to Queen Elizabeth which according to ESTC "is lacking from some copies".

Provenance: C. Parker, early ownership name beneath 2 lines struck through; James Bindley's Library sale (Part II), January 1819, lot 54 (the named item sold with 2 other volumes, ink note); from which purchased by Richard Heber (1774-1833), with his "Bibliotheca Heberiana" stamp, all on front free endpaper.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.

Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

CORNELIUS, MATTHEWS, editor. 1817-1889. The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Legends of the American Indians.

CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. [Dictionarium.] Calepinus Ad librum. Mos est putidas.... Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, January 3, 1509.

HEARN, LAFCADIO. 1850-1904. [Japanese Fairy Tales.] Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith, [But Tokyo: T. Hasegawa,] [c.1931].

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. 1899-1961. PUTNAM, SAMUEL, translator. Kiki's Memoirs. Paris: Sign of the Black Manikin, 1930.