1575 PSALTERIUM DAVIDIS antique 16th century BIBLE PSALMS of DAVID rare
img{max-width:100%} Bible, Latin. Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per Eobanum Hessum, cum annotationibus Viti Theodori Norimbergensis, quæ commentarij vice esse possuntLondon, Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius; 1575title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, trimmed at outer and top edges, minor wear.Worn sheep binding, rebacked, with modern spineFirst London edition of this Latin verse translation by the German poet and Lutheran humanist Eobanus Hessus. It is rare at auction.Size 3 by 4 3/4"376 pages Text in Latin======================Thomas Vautrollier or Vautroullier (died 1587) was a French Huguenot refugee who became a printer in England and, briefly, in Scotland.Vautrollier emigrated to London from Paris or Rouen about the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I (1558), and was granted letters of denization on 9 March 1562. He was admitted a brother of the Stationers' Company on 2 October 1564, and probably worked as a servant to s