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CALVIN (Jean). Ioannis Calvini Commentarii in Isaiam Prophet…
See original version (French)
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CALVIN (Jean). Ioannis Calvini Commentarii in Isaiam Prophet…
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
CALVIN (Jean). Ioannis Calvini Commentarii in Isaiam Prophetam. Ad Eduardum VI. Angliae regem. Additus est sententiarum & locorum index. Geneva, Jean Crespin, 1551.
Small folio (32.5 x 22.5 cm) with (1) blank page, (1) title page, (5) epistle pages, 638 pp. and (19) index pages, dark brown calf, decorated ribbed spine, double cold framing, gilt corner fleurons and small gilt iron bearing the initials WS in the centre of the boards, traces of old clasps, handwritten title on the edge (antique binding).
First edition. Quotation from the first Epistle of Peter engraved in a beautiful Renaissance frame on the title and colophon.
"These commentaries are the result of a close collaboration with Nicolas Des Gallars. Calvin summed up the situation in a letter to Francisco Enzinas dated 7 March 1550: 'My Meditations on Isaiah that you are waiting for, you tell me, will soon come out, but written by Des Gallars. Because I don't have enough time to write. But he takes note of them while I'm teaching, then writes them up at home. I read it again and where he has not followed my thought correctly, I reproduce it better' (O.C., t.13, col.536)", R. Peter & J.F. Gilmont, Bibliotheca Calviniana, 51/6.
Handwritten ex-libris, Guildford Theological Library label to upper flyleaf.
Binding worn (leather missing from spine and corners), wormholes in lower margin, old angular wetness else a good copy of this first edition of John Calvin's (1509-1564) commentaries on the Book of Isaiah, his first interpretation of an Old Testament book. Rare.
See original version (French)
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