Beschreibung:

Bible, Polyglot [The London, or Walton, Polyglot], with Castell's Lexicon BIBLIA SACRA POLYGLOTTA, COMPLECTENTIA TEXTUS ORIGINALES, HEBRAICUM, CUM PENTATEUCHO SAMARITANO, CHALDAICHUM, GRAECUM. VERSIONUMQUE ANTIQUARUM, SAMARITANAE GRAECAE LXXII INTERP., CHALDAICAE, SYRIACAE, ARABICAE, AETHIOPICAE, PERSICAE, VULG. LAT. QUICQUID COMPARARI POTERAT. … EDIDIT BRIANUS WALTONUS. LONDON: THOMAS ROYCROFT, [1553–] 1557 [UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH:] EDMUND CASTELL, LEXICON HEPTAGLOTTON, HEBRAICUM, CHALDAICUM, SYRIACUM, SAMARITANUM, AETHIOPICUM, ARABICUM, CONJUNCTIM; ET PERSICUM, SEPARATIM. LONDON: THOMAS ROYCROFT, 1669 Together, 2 works in 8 volumes, folio (16 7/8 x 11 in.; 427 x 278 mm). Walton with general title-page printed in red and black, additional engraved historiated architechtonic title-page, 2 full-sheet engraved maps, and 4 engraved plates (some folding or double-page) by Wenceslas Hollar, a few woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials; one plate just shaved. Castell with title-page printed in red and black, woodcut initials; lacking frontispiece portrait and title-page to vol. 2. Both works with occasional light browning and some minor marginal worming, tears, and repairs, but withal quite clean. Nineteenth-century sheep, red and green morocco spine labels, plain endpapers, blue-marbled edges (Castell) and red-sprinkled edges (Walton); worn, some loss to spines and corners, covers over-covered with brown cloth at a later date.