[Bible. N.T. Greek] Της καινης διαθηκης απαντα, Paris, 1546, contemporary Parisian calf by Wotton Binder B

16mo (127 x 76 mm). Greek type, 23 lines plus headline. collation: a-z⁸ A-K⁸ aa-zz⁸: 448 leaves (last two leaves blank). Woodcut Estienne basilisk device on title-page and aa1, Estienne olive tree device on final verso, woodcut initials and headpieces, ruled in red. (Occasional light staining, H1 torn without loss.)

binding: Contemporary Parisian calf with painted and gilt decoration (131 x 86 mm), by Wotton Binder B, central cartouche with the owner’s name GEORGIVS MARIVS on upper cover and motto MEMENTO MORI on lower cover, outer interlaced frame, cartouche and frame painted in white, blue, red and green, spine with small gilt stamp in each compartment and gilt fillet across each band, lettered in second compartment, edges gilt and gauffered, remains of four pairs of ties. In modern crushed red morocco drop-backed box. (Occasional loss of paint, joints repaired, small section of lower joint detaching, corners of textblock slightly rubbed.)

provenance: Georgius Marius, name on binding (plausibly the Georg Marius of Strassburg, medical doctor, from 1559 of the medical faculty at Freiburg) — Library of the Augustinian hermits, Freiburg im Breisgau, inscription on title-page (dissolved in 1803) — Bibliothèque Mery de Bellegarde, armorial bookplate — Martin Breslauer Inc., catalogue 109 (New York, 1988), item 61. acquisition: Purchased in 1988 from Breslauer. references: BP16 112332; Darlow & Moule 4616; Mortimer, Harvard French 74; Schreiber, Estiennes 90; USTC 149681