Biblia sacra, vulgatae editionis, Sixti V.

by Biblia Sacra

$800 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

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.

• Binding: Leather

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