Lot 172
  • 172

Calvin, John

Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
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Description

  • Commentariorum … in acta apostolorum. Liber I (–Liber posterior). Geneva: Jean Crispin, 1552–1554
  • ink,paper,leather
2 volumes in one, folio (12 1/2 x 8 ins.; 323 x 201 mm). Woodcut printer's device on both title-pages and repeated at foot of errata leaf to first volume; first title lightly soiled and with small hole in upper margin and loss to both fore-edge corners, faint dampstain at bottom margin of a few leaves, some early marginalia.  Modern boards; tear to head of spine.

Provenance

acquisition: E. P. Goldschmidt, 1966

Literature

Adams C310, 311

Condition

2 volumes in one, folio (12 1/2 x 8 ins.; 323 x 201 mm). Woodcut printer's device on both title-pages and repeated at foot of errata leaf to first volume; first title lightly soiled and with small hole in upper margin and loss to both fore-edge corners, faint dampstain at bottom margin of a few leaves, some early marginalia. Modern boards; tear to head of spine.
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Catalogue Note

First edition of both volumes of Calvin's commentary on the Acts of the Apostles.