Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410
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Sale 2410 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BIBLE IN FRENCH.) La Bible qui est Toute la Saincte Escriture du Vieil et Nouveau Testament [with the Marot/Bèze metrical Psalms]. Woodcut text illustrations; letterpress music in text of Psalms. [4], 350; 80; 113, [15]; [81] leaves, including engraved general title and title to Psalms within woodcut historiated architectural border. 4 parts in one volume. 8vo, 186x116 mm, contemporary burgundy morocco lavishly gilt-tooled to panel design on covers with cornerpieces formed by volutes and stipplework around filigree lozenge containing oval floral emblem in center, flat spine decorated with concentric ornamental borders, front joint cracked at top, covers slightly warped with some surface wear, covers corners and fore edges worn through; contents toned or browned with occasional marginal dampstaining, scored and oxidized inscriptions in blank lower margin of a few leaves and single small wormhole in upper margins in the Bible, ink scrawls and stains on endpapers. With contemporary full-page ink-and-watercolor drawings on the front endleaves depicting the cover emblem and an unidentified early owner's coat of arms, and with the text of the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds in French written in 17th-century hand on the rear endleaves. Later 19th-century armorial bookplate of Henri de Gineste; inscription from his widow to their daughter dated 1914. La Rochelle: Corneille Hertman, 1616
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Later edition of the Geneva revision of Pierre-Robert Olivetan's 1535 translation, the first French Protestant version of the Bible, which "exercised no slight influence on the English Bible of 1537, known as 'Matthew's Bible' . . . In its later form, as the French Geneva version, it influenced still more strongly the English Geneva Bible"--Darlow & Moule 3710 note.