CALVIN (Jean). Commentaires de M. Jean Calvin sur les Epistres de l'Apostre S. Paul, & aussi sur l'Epistre aux Hebrieux. [suivi de] Commentaires sur les Epistres Canoniques de S. Pierre, S. Iean, S. Iaques, & S. Iude, autrement appelees Catholiques... [Genève], Conrad Badius, Jean Bonnefoy, 1562. 2 works in 1 vol. in-folio bound in full ivory vellum, spine ribbed, boards covered with a later polychrome decoration depicting a portrait of John Calvin surrounded by those of the apostles. [4] ff., 414 ff., 87 ff., [13] ff. Illustrated with the initials of the printers as a title finial, wood-engraved entablature and initials. A charming copy of these commentaries by Calvin printed by Conrad Badius during the author's lifetime. Our copy contains abundant handwritten annotations possibly from the hand of Guillaume Perrot, according to a 19th-century note, which was a Latin scholar and contemporary of Calvin who attended the Collège de Neuchâtel. A copy in good condition in a singular binding probably from the late 19th, early 20th century. Wear to binding, some foxing and small wetness, ff. 178 and 179 are missing in our copy. Handwritten bookplate of David Prevost "de Neuchâtel"

CALVIN (Jean). Commentaires de M. Jean Calvin sur les Epistres de l'Apostre S. Paul, & aussi sur l'Epistre aux Hebrieux. [suivi de] Commentaires sur les Epistres Canoniques de S. Pierre, S. Iean, S. Iaques, & S. Iude, autrement appelees Catholiques... [Genève], Conrad Badius, Jean Bonnefoy, 1562. 2 works in 1 vol. in-folio bound in full ivory vellum, spine ribbed, boards covered with a later polychrome decoration depicting a portrait of John Calvin surrounded by those of the apostles. [4] ff., 414 ff., 87 ff., [13] ff. Illustrated with the initials of the printers as a title finial, wood-engraved entablature and initials. A charming copy of these commentaries by Calvin printed by Conrad Badius during the author's lifetime. Our copy contains abundant handwritten annotations possibly from the hand of Guillaume Perrot, according to a 19th-century note, which was a Latin scholar and contemporary of Calvin who attended the Collège de Neuchâtel. A copy in good condition in a singular binding probably from the late 19th, early 20th century. Wear to binding, some foxing and small wetness, ff. 178 and 179 are missing in our copy.
Handwritten bookplate of David Prevost "de Neuchâtel"

Good overall condition

Binding :

Old restorations

Wear, particularly to the leather, with marked epidermis on the jaws and nerves

Joints partially split

Old traces of folds in some corners

Paint rubbed and faded in places

Pages :

Foxing of varying density depending on the ff.

Some soiling and wetness

Minor scattered soiling

Slight and old traces of moisture on some pages at the beginning of the book

Several pagination errors

Double ff. 177 and 180 to replace the missing ff. 178 and 179 in our copy