Live auction - Lot 1024
[Bible illustration]
Figures des histoires de la sainte Bible, avec des discours, qui contiennent exactement ce qui est écrit de plus remarquable dans l'Ancien et le Nouveau Testament [...].
Paris, R. Pepie, 1687 [=1688?]
Hammer price: €
360
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Folio: [8]-272 pp. (French title missing, missing pp. at final quire Z and erroneous additions, 8 final index pp. missing, 2 fold. pl. missing, title def., paper losses throughout the entire work, mostly underl. with chalk paper, most obtrusive in the beginning, the woodcuts furtheron are mainly untouched).
Mod. red leather, spine with raised bands. S.w.a.f. No subject to return.
Later revised and corrected edition. Woodcuts each accompanied by a caption and a text in French, in a full-page decorated frame. The drawings are attributed to Jean Cousin. Title in red & black. Separate title for the N.T. Pp. 159-160 do not exist (Bibles Paris). Despite the many announced defects, this series of engravings remains appreciable. Our title is dated "M.DC.LXXXVII.". We do not find this edition in Bibles Paris which mentions in an extended description only the ed. of 1688 similar with the work, despite all faults, we present here.
Ref. Bibles Paris 1325 (ed. 1688).