10th Nov, 2022 10:00

Books, Manuscripts & Maps Auction

 
Lot 1025
 

HOLY BIBLE, Folio, 1708/1707.

HOLY BIBLE, Folio, 1708/1707. Probably printed in Amsterdam. Additional engraved title and 6 maps by Nicholas Visscher and Joseph Moxon, 4 of them folding. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, brass centre bosses and corners. Lacking 3 brass corner pieces and clasps. Herbert 897.

Sold for £250


Condition Report
The Bible contains two and a half pages of detailed records for the family of John Clunie. He married Williamina Rutherford at Sedburgh on 26 February 1787. There are further details of when his children were born and of some of their deaths. John Clunie died 22 April 1819 and was interred in Berwick churchyard.

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