Lot 444
Bible, Latin. [Louvain Bible], wood-engravings throughout, Gg7-nN7 waterstained in lower margin, lacking all before *2 and final blank, a few leaves with minor ink stains, seventeenth century full vellum, soiled, bookplate of Thomas Hussey, 8vo, [?Lyon, c.1550]
Thomas Hussey (1746-1803) held a long and distinguished career. He was appointed chaplain to the Spanish Embassy in London in 1767 and made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1792. He was made the Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland, around 1795. Lecky described him as 'the ablest English-speaking Bishop of his time'.
