Bible Illustrations -- Icones Historicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti, Geneva, chez Samuel de Tournes, 1681, 2 vols. in one, 8vo, title printed in red and black, parallel text in Latin and French (French verse translation by Claude Paradin), 358 woodcut illustrations after Bernard Salomon (marginal dampstains, illustration on H1 of vol. I affected by paper fault, F1 of vol. II with section of outer margin torn away), 19th-century marbled sheep (recased).

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Bible Illustrations -- Icones Historicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti, Geneva, chez Samuel de Tournes, 1681, 2 vols. in one, 8vo, title printed in red and black, parallel text in Latin and French (French verse translation by Claude Paradin), 358 woodcut illustrations after Bernard Salomon (marginal dampstains, illustration on H1 of vol. I affected by paper fault, F1 of vol. II with section of outer margin torn away), 19th-century marbled sheep (recased).

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Salomon's woodcuts were first published in 1553.

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