BIBLE, PSALMS, POLYGLOT -- Psalterium, Hebreum, Graecum, Arabicum et Chaldeum, cum tribus Latinis interpretationibus & glossis, edited by Augustino Giustiniani, Genoa: Petrus Paulus Porrus, September 1516, 2° (330 x 225mm.), polyglot title printed in red and black within a woodcut strapwork border, text in Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic types, 4 columns, the first two facing pages of text printed in black and red, 13 woodcut capitals, printer's device at end (repair to foot of title slightly affecting woodcut border, rather browned, occasional dampstains), 19th-century Italian vellum. [Adams B1370; Darlow & Moule 1411; Sabin 66468]

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BIBLE, PSALMS, POLYGLOT -- Psalterium, Hebreum, Graecum, Arabicum et Chaldeum, cum tribus Latinis interpretationibus & glossis, edited by Augustino Giustiniani, Genoa: Petrus Paulus Porrus, September 1516, 2° (330 x 225mm.), polyglot title printed in red and black within a woodcut strapwork border, text in Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic types, 4 columns, the first two facing pages of text printed in black and red, 13 woodcut capitals, printer's device at end (repair to foot of title slightly affecting woodcut border, rather browned, occasional dampstains), 19th-century Italian vellum. [Adams B1370; Darlow & Moule 1411; Sabin 66468]
Provenance
Erased early inscription on title; Ulrico Hoepli, bookseller's label.

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