Armorial Binding; Bible, Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical Books of...

Hammer

£70

Armorial Binding; Bible, Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical Books of the Old Testament - Calmet (Dom Antoine Augustin, O.S.B.), Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres l'ancien et du nouveau testament: Les deux livres d'Esdras, Tobie, Judith, et Esther, Paris: Pierre Emery, 1712, woodcut title-page vignette, 1 philological plate of ancient alphabets, copperplate biblical vignettes, contemporaneous 18th century French calf, the covers blocked in gilt with an armorial supralibros, six-compartment spine of raised browns enclosing coronet, crown, and serpent crest, red-stained edges, gilt turn-ins and dentelles, marbled endpapers, 4to, [1]

Provenance: Louis II Colbert, Marquis de Linières (1709-1761), field marshal and last
male descendant of his branch; his armorial binding, coat of arms blocked in gilt to each cover, heraldic devices and coronet within spine.