Live auction - Lot 880
[Bible]
Les pseaumes de David, mis en rime françoise par C.M. et T.D.B.
Charenton, Paris, Antoine Cellier, s.d. [c. 1636-1659]
€ 1.500 / 2.000
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Lot description
32mo, 6,8 x 5 cm : not pagin., A-Z8, Aa-Ee8 (1st and last margins creased, upper margin trimmed somewhat short, endpapers renewed).
Contemp. blind vellum (sl. stained, sm. wormhole on lower cover). Sl. used copy.
Very rare new ed. of this translation by the French poets Clément Marot (1496-1544) and Théodore de Bèze (1519-1605). Also contains "Les commandemens de Dieu", "Le cantique de Siméon" and "La forme des prières". Antoine Cellier published several eds of the Psalms in different sizes. Ref. COPAC. - Not in Welsh, Bondy, Spielmann, Bn-Opale plus.