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1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps
1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps

1850 Rare Greek New Testament - Novum Testamentum with Clasp and Maps

$200 USD - $200 USD
$200 USD
$200 USD - $200 USD
$200 USD

Author: William Greenfield.
Title: Novum Testamentum ad Exemplar Millianum.
Publisher: Londini [London], Samuel Bagster & Sons, circa 1850.
Language: Primarily Greek and Latin, with extensive multilingual typographic elements.
Size: 4 x 3 inches.
Pages: 565 pages.
Binding: Very good, richly gilt-decorated dark brown morocco binding by Bagster with elaborate blind-stamped panels and spine ornaments (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt; original metal clasp present and fully working; an exceptionally attractive miniature devotional binding.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with 3 colour full-page maps.

Estimate: (USD 300–350).

The book: A beautifully produced nineteenth-century Bagster polyglot New Testament in miniature format, printed in Greek with scholarly references and enriched by one of the most visually striking multilingual title pages of the Victorian period.

Prepared by biblical scholar William Greenfield, this edition follows the Mill text with the emendations and readings of Griesbach, accompanied by lexical and scriptural references intended for advanced theological study. Despite its compact dimensions, the volume was designed with extraordinary care, combining scholarship, typography, and refined craftsmanship into an elegant portable edition.

The binding is especially appealing: finely grained morocco with ornate blind tooling, raised bands, richly gilt edges, and its original functioning clasp still intact. The dramatic opening polyglot title page, displaying “The New Testament” across numerous languages and scripts, perfectly captures the cosmopolitan ambition of the Bagster press and its fascination with sacred languages and comparative biblical scholarship.

The publisher: Samuel Bagster & Sons was among the most important nineteenth-century publishers of Bibles, polyglot scriptures, and scholarly religious works. Renowned for technical innovation and typographic sophistication, Bagster editions remain highly collectible today, especially finely bound miniature and clasped examples such as this one.

The editor: William Greenfield (1799–1831) was a respected English biblical scholar and linguist associated with the preparation of critical and reference editions of the New Testament. His editorial work contributed to the growing nineteenth-century movement toward rigorous textual scholarship and comparative philology.