[THE FIRST FOLIO OF MILL'S GREEK NEW TESTAMENT] MILL, JOHN -...

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£300 - £500

[THE FIRST FOLIO OF MILL'S GREEK NEW TESTAMENT] MILL, JOHN - NOVUM TESTAMENTUM.... Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1707. First edition, large thick folio, half-title, fine engraved frontispiece, title with copper-plate engraving of the Sheldonian, text in Latin and Greek, engraved chapter headings and initial letters, full 18th century calf re-backed and retaining the original spine, housed in a solander box. The much-lauded and scarce first edition of Mill's work, which took 30 years to complete - Mill died just a fortnight after its publication. Provenance: St John's College, Nottingham

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Text generally clean and fresh, multiple blank leaves bound in at the front and rear, spine rubbed