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DU BARTAS, GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE; et al. Du Bartas His Divine Weekes and Workes: With A Complete Collection of all the other most delightfull Workes. Folding leaf of letterpress text within woodcut historiated border ("The Mysterie of Mysteries," with clean tears repaired on verso); woodcut of the Garden of Eden on I4v, another of Christ in Majesty on Z4v. [34], 345, [1], 351-425, [1], 425-670 pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and additional title. Folio, modern leather; occasional browning, inscription inked out in blank portion of 2Q4r, institutional perforated stamp on letterpress general title, 19th-century engraving of Chiswick House mounted on front blank. London: Robert Young for William Hope, 1641
Translation first published in 1605 of the verse epic by Du Bartas on the Creation and early Bible history, and miscellaneous writings by him and other authors. Alden 641/35 (for New World references and poem on tobacco).
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