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LA BIBLIA, que es, los Sacros libros del Vieio y Nuevo Testamento. Trasladada en Español. [ Bâle, Thomas Guarini, Samuel Apiarius], 1569 (en septiembre).

Estimation : 300 / 400
Adjudication : 6 000 €
Description
3 parts in 1 vol. in-4° : [30] pp.-1438 col.-[1 bl. p.], 544, 508 [i.e. 506] col.-[9] pp. (dampstains, some large, lower margin of title-page repaired, foxing, ink stains, underlinings and marginal handwritten notes, contemporary ms. provenance on title-page).
Contemporary binding : sprinkeld sheepskin, gilt decorated ribbed spine, marbled edges (scratches, wormholes on upper board, joints split, lower turn in lacking, edges and corners dulled, 2 strongly, catalogue notice on the upper pastedown and handwritten note on the flyleaf).
FIRST EDITION OF THE TRANSLATION of the complete Bible by the reformer Cassiodoro de Reina, based on the original Hebrew and Greek texts, known as "Biblia del Oso" or "Bible of the bear" because of the vignette on title-page figuring a bear trying to obtain honey from a hole in a trunk tree.
Published at Basel by Thomas Guarini even though the device on title-page is from Samuel Apiarius who was also printing in the city at that time. According Darlow & Moule, Apiarius probably printed the book for Guarini, maybe in his own office. Illustrated with 2 woodcuts figuring Ezekiel's vision of the Chariot of the Lord and his prophecy of Tyre's destruction and ornemental initials (one representing cherubs).
Title-page in variant B, i.e. without the narrow ornament at the top and with the title arranged in six lines.
The Reformer Reina (c. 1520-1594) escaped from Spain in c. 1557 and came to England after the accession of Elizabeth I. He settled in London where he preached to a congreation of Spaniards. Because of accusations of heresy and crime, which he cleared himself afterwards, he had to return to the continent. He held for a time a ministry in Antwerp and was associated with authors of the Polyglot Bible. The Inquisitation placed his works in the Index and burnt symbolically an image of Reina.
# Darlow & Moule 8472; # USTC 671402 & 671413; # Machiels B-461; # VD 16 B 2868 & B 2869; # not in Adams, nor in Soltész
Provenance : E.D. Weigel, Leipzig (label).
Édition originale de la traduction de la "Bible de l'Ours". Illustrée de 2 gravures sur bois (vision et prophétie d'Ézéchiel) et d'1 vign. de titre. Pleine basane de l'ép. (mouill. dont certaines larges, marge inf. du titre restaurée, rouss., épidermures et griffes).
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