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CALVIN, Jean (1509-1564). Commentarii in quatuor Pauli epistolas: ad Galatas, ad Ephesios, ad Philippenses, ad Colossenses. Geneva: Jean Girard, 1548.
8o (187 x 125 mm). Collation: a4 a-f8 g4 h-v8 z6. Woodcut device on title, criblé initial capitals. (Small stain on title margin, damnpstains to foremargin.) Binding: Contemporary sombre binding in blindtooled black morocco, the covers with outer borders of blind fillets, the four corner spaces tooled with various fleurons, an inner lozenge outlined with fillets and repeated impressions of a small floral tool, the lozenge filled with a symmetrical arabesque of interlaced fleurons, plain spine in seven compartments, sparingly tooled along bands (new endleaves, neat repairs to joints and spine extremities, lacking original ties, one small wormhole in upper cover, two in the lower). Provenance: Indistinct 16th-century inscription on title, extensive underlinings and marginalia in some sections (Ephesians, Philippians), in a humanistic hand, some cropped in binding -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate).
A UNUSUAL BLIND-TOOLED BINDING formerly attributed to Étienne Roffet. FIRST EDITION. Adams C325; Erichson, Bibliografia Calviniana, p.8; R. Peter & J.-F. Gilmont, Bibliotheca Calviniana, 48/7.
8o (187 x 125 mm). Collation: a4 a-f8 g4 h-v8 z6. Woodcut device on title, criblé initial capitals. (Small stain on title margin, damnpstains to foremargin.) Binding: Contemporary sombre binding in blindtooled black morocco, the covers with outer borders of blind fillets, the four corner spaces tooled with various fleurons, an inner lozenge outlined with fillets and repeated impressions of a small floral tool, the lozenge filled with a symmetrical arabesque of interlaced fleurons, plain spine in seven compartments, sparingly tooled along bands (new endleaves, neat repairs to joints and spine extremities, lacking original ties, one small wormhole in upper cover, two in the lower). Provenance: Indistinct 16th-century inscription on title, extensive underlinings and marginalia in some sections (Ephesians, Philippians), in a humanistic hand, some cropped in binding -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate).
A UNUSUAL BLIND-TOOLED BINDING formerly attributed to Étienne Roffet. FIRST EDITION. Adams C325; Erichson, Bibliografia Calviniana, p.8; R. Peter & J.-F. Gilmont, Bibliotheca Calviniana, 48/7.