Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CALVIN, JEAN. Epistolae et responsa. [40], 411 [i. e., 407], [13] pages. bound with his: Institutio Christianae religionis. [16], 596, [75] pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 344x222 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, quite worn, white ink shelf number on spine; occasional toning, scattered foxing and marginalia, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on first title, accession number on next leaf. Bookplate and signature of J. M. Deker. Geneva: Pierre de Saint-André, 1575; François Perrin, 1568

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first edition of a collection of Calvin's correspondence, bound with a later edition of his most famous work, the fundamental doctrinal treatise of the Reformation. GLN-582, GLN-796.