[PARADIN (Claude)]. Historical Illustrations from the Bible. - Lot 133

[PARADIN (Claude)]. Historical Illustrations from the Bible. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1560. In-8, brown morocco, Jansenist style, interior lace, gilt edges on marbled paper (Thibaron-Échaubard). Reprint of the 1558 Tournes edition (Cartier, no. 452). It is adorned with 231 lovely woodcut vignettes from the famous series by Bernard Salomon, known as “Le Petit Bernard,” a masterpiece of 16th-century French engraving; the title page is set within a beautiful frame. Skillful restorations in the margins of the title page and folios A2, A3, and A8.

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