Quadrins historiques de la Bible. Reveus, & augmentés d'un grand nombre de figures.

8to: [131] ff. (last bl. lacking, occ. foxing).

19th-c. dark blue shagreen, covers decorated with a large gilt dentelle, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, gilt edges, gilt inside dentelles, a.e.g. (corners and joints sl. rubbed). Very nice copy.

5th and last issue by de Tournes (1st ed.: 1553), with a new title border (arabesques on black background, pilcrow between title and bibliographic address) and ill. with 247 mid-page woodcuts attributed to Bernard Salomon. Mottos in italics, printer's mark on f. Q3v "Art en son Dieu", central floral ornament with arabesques on f. [Q3v].
Ref. SvGültlingen (De Tournes) 682 = Cartier 637. - STC French (BL) 336. - Pettegree FB 5315. - USTC 11313. - Bibles de Paris, 1307. - Not in Adams, Mortimer (French).
Prov. Hans Joachim Trautner (1916-2001) (bookpl.).
Bound with, as often, same place and editor, same condition: [Fontaine, Claude] - Figures du Nouveau Testament. 1579. [52] ff. 5th ed. by de Tournes (1st ed.: 1556) of these sixains, with historiated frame on title page wood-engr. with viper device and 96 mid-page woodcuts by Salomon. Mottos in italics, printer's mark on f. G4v (different from the 1st work). Ref. SvGültlingen (De Tournes) 629 = Cartier 593. - STC French 169. - Mortimer (French) 95. - Pettegree FB 5308. - USTC 2614. - Bibles de Paris, 1304. - Not in Adams.