Biblia Sacrosancta, Veteris et Novi Instrumenti, iuxta vulgatam & consuetam aeditionem . .. Additis ad singula capita perbreuibus quidem argumentis ... Vna cum fidelissima vocu Herbraicarum interpretatione

      Lugduni [Lyon]: [Jacobus Giunta], 1540. (BIBLE, LATIN) 8vo. Title within architectural border. Text in two columns. [8], 506, [6] leaves. Giunta's woodcut device of a crab and a butterfly on verso of final leaf. Period style dark brown blind stamped calf over beveled quarter-sewn oak boards, preserving early bronze clasps and contemporary ink notes on the endpapers, and an early nineteenth- century gift inscription on the front pastedown to John Vanderbilt Jr. of Flatbush (Brooklyn), New York; edges stained red, with early vellum index tabs. Not in Darlow & Moule; not in Adams; OCLC 23621659 (locating only one copy) . Very rare Vulgate bible issued by Jacopo Giunta in Lyon in 1540, with the Prefaces of St. Jerome. It is not recorded in Darlow & Moule; OCLC locates only one copy worldwide (Univ. of Michigan); and neither the Library of Congress, the British Library, nor, astonishingly, the Bibliotheque Nationale, has a copy