Live auction - Lot 1358
[Bible - Commentary]
Commentaire littéral sur tous les livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament. Les Nombres et le Deutéronome [- Les Actes des Apôtres].
CALMET, Augustin
€ 120 / 200
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Lot description
Paris, P. Émery, 1709 [- 1715]
2 vol., 4to: [4]-xxxii-387-[17]-lxxii-389-[19], [4]-xxxviii-[2]-522-[2] pp.; 2 pl. (very occ. foxing in vol. I, marg. wormhole(s) or sm. wormtrack in vol. II).
Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. spines with raised bands, spr. edges (occ. sm. traces of use).
First editions of these two volumes (Books of Numbers & Deuteronomy and the Acts of the Apostles) of A. Calmet (1672-1757) commentary on Old and New Testaments. Illustrated with 3 copper-engr. headpieces and 2 maps by Liébaux (fold. or on double-page): the Exodus and "Carte pour les Actes des Apôtres".
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