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[BIBLE - N.T., Greek]. [Greek title: Tes Kaines Diathekes apanta]. Novi Testamenti Libri omnes, recens nunc editi: cum Notis & Animaduersionibus Doctissimorum, Praesertim vero, Roberti Stephani, Josephi Scaligeri, Isaaci Casauboni. Variae item Lectiones ex antiquissimis exemplaribus, & celeberrimis bibliothecis, desumptae.

Londini [i.e. Leiden]. Apud [B. and A. Elzevir for] Richardum Whittakerum, 1633.
8vo. [8], 459pp, [13]. First four words of title transliterated from the Greek. Printed in double columns. Eighteenth-century gilt-tooled brick-red morocco. Lightly rubbed and marked. Early manuscript quotation, in the original greek, from Ephrem the Syrian to FFEP; in what appears to be the same hand as the ownership inscriptions 'Rob: Hawkesworth / His Book / 1709' to verso of title page and head of p.1. Preliminaries a little dampstained at head. Later armorial bookplate to FEP of the Gaddesden library, with pencilled shelf marks to front blank fly-leaf.
A Greek Testament, printed at least in part at the Elzevir press, for London bookseller Richard Whittaker (fl.1618-49), with the device of the former on the title page. The text is near identical to the Elzevir's own second edition of the Greek New Testament printed the same year, apart from, as noted by Darlow and Moule 'four passages, in three of which it adopts readings found in H. Stephanus' edition of 1576'.

Richard Whittaker had previously printed an edition in 1622 with a different text, though the same supplementary material appears here. The house of Elzevir reissued some copies, under their own imprint, in 1641.
ESTC S90878, Darlow and Moule 4680, STC 2798.5.
£ 750.00 Antiquates Ref: 26478