1557 GENEVA NEW TESTAMENT. Rare Bagster Fac-Similie of the Genevan Testament, 1557. Slavery A Critical Copy of the

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1557 GENEVA NEW TESTAMENT. Rare Bagster Fac-Similie of the Genevan Testament, 1557. Slavery A Critical Copy of theA very scarce c. 1840 facsimile of the historically critical 1557 Geneva New Testament. This was a milestone in English translation, being a revision largely of Tyndale's 1534 for the modern reader and including, for the very first time, a system of numbering verses to make for easier reference. We do not trace a complete example being offered at auction in the record. Single leaves can fetch $5,000 $7,000 on the private market. The next edition was