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Lot no. 47
BIBLE.
[COUSIN (Jean). Figures of the histories of the Holy Bible, accompanied by brief discourses, containing the greater part of the sacred histories of the old and new Testament, & of the admirable works of the living God, Creator of Heaven & Earth, & of Jesus Christ his only Son, our Saviour & Redeemer. Pour l'exercice ordinaire des âmes dévotes & contemplatives. Paris, Guillaume Le Bé, 1646. 2 parts in a folio volume, granite-coloured basane, ornate spine, red title page, red-speckled edges (Binding of the period).
Remarkable engraved suite known as the Bible de Jean Cousin, illustrated with a large number of mid-page woodcuts.
Titles decorated with an ornamental border of flowers, plants and birds. Text printed in a typographical frame.
Eighteenth-century handwritten bookplate on one of the titles and the first endpaper.
Leaves C3, C4, N3 and N4 incomplete. Leaves Z2 and Z3 interchanged. Transverse tear without missing the dedication leaf, small crack to a few leaves. Binding rubbed, jaws split over a few centimetres.
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