L'Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament, Avec des Explications édifiantes, tirées des Saints Peres pour regler les moeurs dans toute sorte de conditions
Paris: Pierre le Petit, 1680. Edition nouvelle, enrichie de Figures en taille-douce. Hardcover. 16mo. 569, [5]pp. Original full calf. Engraved title page. Vignette on title page. Decorative headpieces and initials. This remarkable and early edition of de Royaumont's classic history of the Bible (first published in 1670) is superbly illustrated with 267 in text engravings (183 for the Old Testament, and 84 for the New Testament). Spine and edges of binding heavily rubbed. Very light damp-staining along endpapers and on lower part of last pages (from page 504 forward). Text in French. Binding in overall fair, interior in good+ to very good condition. f to vg. Item #30664
Price: $650.00