BIBLIA SACRA

Biblia sacra, vulgatae editionis, Sixti V.

Venice: Typographia Herziana, 1740. 3 vols. 8vo. [xxx], 632; 560; 591 pp. Double column, title in red and black, full-page etched frontispiece in Vol I, woodcut illustrations throughout. Contemporary stiff vellum, manuscript spine titles. Some minor dampstaining, but otherwise a remarkably good set. Folded in are a manuscript devotional poem, a letter dated 11 Nov. 1856, a printed leaflet oration to St. Felix of Nola, and an etched vignette of St. Pius X. Ownership inscription on the front flyleaf of Vol I dated 1906. Item #18542

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