BIBLE]. BIBLIA SACRA vulgatae editionis. Venice, N. Pezzana II, 1688. Large volume in-8 ivory vellum, spine boards with black calligraphic title, red and blue speckled edges, traces of closing cords (period binding); (12) ff. including frontispiece and title, 1089 pages. Frontispiece lined with small tears, last page reinforced, spotting in the lower corner of the first few pages, some soiling, handwritten notes on the title including: "De la libreria de la Sta Recoleccion, de Bs Ayres". FIRST EDITION of this Latin Bible printed in Venice. It is illustrated with a FRONTISPICE engraved by Isabella Piccini, a large copper-engraved title vignette and numerous woodcuts in the text. ¶ Delaveau & Hillard, 1118, which ignores this edition and describes only an edition of 1732.

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