Description:
Bible, French: La Bible, qui est Toute la Saincte Escriture: Contenant le Vieil & le Nouveau Testament. [Geneva]: Par Francois Perrin, pour Antoine Vincent, 1567. Octavo, illustrated with text woodcuts (some nearly full page) and additional folding plates, including three folding woodcut maps of the holy land (one with brown glue stains),(some leaves with adhesions and surface loss, tears, and holes),lacking signature rr, bound in later calf, spine damaged, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Estimate $300-500
*4, a-z8, A-T8, V10, [folding singlet extraneous to collation: Declaration Fort Vtile], aa-qq8, lacking signature rr, ss-zz8, &&8, &&8, AA-II8.
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Antoine VincentJohn Dorfman
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