18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Luther (Martin)
A Commentarie or Exposition upon the twoo Epistles generall of Sainct Peter, and that of Sainct Jude ... familiarlie translated into Englishe by Thomas Newton, London: for Abraham Veale, 1581. 4to (195 x 145 mm), contemporary vellum, text mainly in black leter, allegorical woodcut border to title-page, woodcut initials, later ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, binding soiled, old ink-stain and partial loss to title-page, variable worming to lower margins from quire G, occasional damp-staining to fore corners, H2 with hole in gutter, Q3 and T3 with lower fore corners torn away, R3 with hole in fore margin just touching edge of text, X3 torn in lower margin.
ESTC S108928 (five copies in UK libraries).
First edition in English of the author's Enarrationes in Epistolas Divi Petri duas et Judae unam. Rare in commerce.
Sold for £800
Estimated at £300 - £500
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022
Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.
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