Auction 358 Old & Rare Books - Religion
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BIBLIA GALLICA -- BIBLE, LA, qvi est tovte la Saincte Escriture, contenant le Vieil & le Nouueau Testament. Geneva, Fr. Estienne, 1567. (4), 370, 90, 122, (11), (1 blank), (82) lvs. W. printer's mark on ti., 5 fold. plates (4 maps) & 22 woodcuts. in the text (incl. maps). - Preceded by: CALENDRIER HISTORIAL. Geneva, Fr. Estienne, 1567. (8) lvs. printed in red & black, w. 24 woodcuts (12 of zodiac signs and 12 depicting farming occupaions associated with each month). 19th c. cf. w. gilt dec. & black label. (Upper margin of ti. 'Calendar' a bit dam., margins cut (in places affecting running ti. or. (printed) marginalia), some tears to fold. plates, w. num. annot. in an old hand (by Philippe Delevis?) throughout the entire work, sl. browned).

Early Protestant Bible, also called the Geneva Bible, containing the Old Testament, Apocrypha, the New Testament, the Psalms -with musical notation- of Clement Marot and Th. Beza, and the Forms. This French edition is a revised translation on which John Calvin collaborated; the French Geneva Bible was used later on as a foundation for the Dutch States Translation. - Renouard 159-7; Darlow & Moule 3730; Brunet I, 891; Graesse I, 375; Adams B-1145.

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