Lot n° 468

[BIBLE]. TESTAMENTI NOVI. Edition vulgata. Lugduni, apud Theobaldum Paganum, 1554.

Estimation : 600 / 700
Adjudication : 2 400 €
Description
In-16° : 496, 336-[16] pp. (handw. provenances on title-page, light dampstains, some foxing and stains).
Contemporary Lyonnese binding : sides entirely decorated with a luxurious interlaced design executed with gilt little tools and mosaics painted in black, white, blue, red and green, all in gilt fillets and black listel frame, flat spine divided in two compartments by blind fillets and rolls, and entirely covered with blind volutes, blind fillets on the cuts, hacks on the turn-ins, later marbled end-papers, gilt gauffered edges (expertly restored binding, paintings a little faded, traces of laces, joints slightly rubbed with a little lack of leather, spine very slightly cracked). Illustrated with more than 100 woodcuts of various sizes.
Text decorated with some ornemental initials; mark of Payen on the title-page.
# Baudrier IV-261 (mentions only the 336 pp.); # USTC 126288; # Soltész B-586 (ed. 1544); # not in Adams, Machiels, Darlow & Moule, STC French.
Illustré de plus de 100 in texto de grandeurs variées. Belle reliure lyonnaise aux motifs entrelacés couverts de cire colorée de blanc, rouge, vert et bleu, dos plat orné à froid d'un motif "à l'écaille" et roul. fleuronnée, tr. dorées aux bords ciselés (gardes et mors discrètement renouvelés ou restaurés au 19e s., lacets de fermeture manquants, décor du plat sup. plus effacé que le plat inf.).
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