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BIBLE, New Testament, English. The Text of the New Testament ... translated ... by the Papists of ... Rhemes ... with a Confutation ... by William Fulke . London: deputies of C. Barker, 1589. 2° (260 x 185mm), title within a woodcut historiated border (title cut round and mounted, fore-margins of first 10 leaves clumsily reinforced, intermittent worming sometimes affecting text, large burnhole in Ii5, top margins cut close with some headlines shaved, some discolouration and spotting). 19th-century calf (lacks spine, upper cover detached). Provenance : Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners). FIRST EDITION of Fulke's confutation of the Catholic New Testament printed at Reims in 1582. STC 2888; DMH 202. BIBLE, Gospels, Polyglot. Evangelia ab Ulfila Gothorum in Moesia episcopo circa annum à nato Christo CCCLX. Ex Graeco Gothicè translata, nunc cum parallelis versionibus, Sveo-Gothicâ, Norraenâ, seu Islandicâ, & vulgatâ Latinâ edita . Stockholm: N. Wankif, 1671. 4° (217 x 162mm), additional engraved title by D. Padt-Prugge after D. Kloker, 3 folding printed tables (lacks the last leaf of index, piece torn from blank foot of printed title, engraved title a little soiled, tears in folding tables). Contemporary vellum (soiled). FIRST EDITION of this version of the Gospels in Gothic, Swedish, Icelandic and Latin, edited by G. Stjernhjelm who has supplied a preliminary dissertation on the origin of languages. D. & M. 1448. With another 6 related works. (8)