BIBLES -- BIBLIA LATINA -- BIBLIA quid in hac editione præstitum sit, vide in ea quam operi præposuimus, ad lectorem epistola. Paris, Ex Off. R. Stephani (Estienne), 1545. In 5 vols. (12), 156; 172, 116, 180 (recte 184), 128, (12) pp. W. woodcut printer's mark and woodcut ti-border on ti-p. Old brds. (Spines a bit dam., edges/corners worn, binds. soiled/stained, lower blank margin of ti-p., without 28 unnumb. lvs. at the end with annotations on the Psalms).
Rare second 8°-edition by Estienne. This printing is the first reissue of the 1543 Zurich version, printed in parallel columns with the Vulgate. The margins contain notes which profess to be drawn from memoranda made by friends of the editor during the lectures of Vatablus. Some of these notes had already appeared, together with a selection of variant readings, in quarto edition of the Pentateuch. While it is the second octavo of Estienne, it is the first time he printed the Zurich Bible. He amended the notes of Vatable in a way that reflected his own religious opinions thus, this Bible landed on the Prohibited Book Index. - Adams B1036; Renouard 62, 2; Darlow/Moule 6127.€ 500