335. Bible, Polyglot . Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, edited by Brian Walton, 6 vol., parallel Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan (Pentateuch), Ethiopic (Job to Malachi & New Testament), Persian (Gospels) and Arabic texts, with Aramaic (Chaldaean) Targums in vol.IV, additional architectural title by Wenceslaus Hollar, engraved portrait by Lombart, letterpress title printed in red & black, 4 engraved maps and plans including 3 double-page, woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials, damp affecting lower edge of 5A1 to end of vol.I, wormtrack to fore-edge margin of beginning up to S1 of vol.II, otherwise internally very good, Albert May Todd’s copy with his bookplate on front pastedowns, contemporary calf, rebacked in later calf, worn, some hinges broken, [Wing B2797 & C1225; D&M 1446], folio, Thomas Roycroft, 1657.
est. £3000 – £4000
Walton’s epic testament to English scholarship & printing , also known as the Walton Bible.
Albert May Todd (1850-1931), businessman and politician, also known as the ‘Peppermint King’. A keen bibliophile and collector, he founded the A.M.Todd Rare Book Room at the Kalamazoo College Upjohn Library, Michigan.