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42 - [BIBLE]. The Holy Gospels, translated from the Vulgate by Ab…
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[BIBLE]. The Holy Gospels, translated from the Vulgate by Abbé Dassange. One of the first works published by Léon Curmer, a masterpiece of Romantic illustrated bibliophilia. Paris, L. Curmer, 1836. 2 volumes in 1 in-4 volume, in a beige publisher’s cardboard binding onto which the spine and covers of the first volume—printed in blue and bistre—have been mounted. In a black half-basane slipcase with a contemporary gilt spine. XXXVII–263 and 440 pp., chromolithographed frontispiece, 12 steel engravings, 10 woodcuts (views of Palestine and the Holy Places) and 2 coloured maps on applied China paper. Browned cardboard binding, some foxing. First edition of one of Curmer’s earliest publications, translated by Abbé Pierre-Nérée Dassance. First print run of the illustrations by Tony Johannot, Adrien-Louis-Marie Cavelier, Jean Alfred Gérard-Séguin and Louis Henri Brévière. Text of the Gospels framed by a wood-engraved border. [Vicaire, III, 616]. In good condition.
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Auction time 09/14/2026 at 2:00 PM
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