Lot 340
Bindings, including Calvin, John
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
Opera omnia. Amsterdam: Joannis Jacobi Schipperi, 1671-67. Folio in sixes, 3 volumes (of 9) in 2 parts, bookplates to paste-down endpapers, contemporary vellum with blind-stamped arabesque decoration to covers, a little marginal darkening; Puente, Luis de la [Ponte, Ludovico de] De Christiana perfectione... Frankfurt: George Christoph, 1737. Small 4to, 4 volumes, bookplates to paste-down endpapers, previous owner's inscription of M. Wiedermann, dated 1795, to first free-endpapers, contemporary pigskin, elaborately embossed, several ties and clasps remaining, some missing, many pages spotted and darkened, small hole to B2 in volume 1 with loss of a couple of letters, a few rust holes and marks with no loss of text, covers a little soiled; Pallavincino, Pietro Sforza, Cardinal Vera concilii tridentini historia. Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana, Balthasaar Moretti, 1670. First edition?, 4to, 3 volumes, engraved title-page, contemporary embossed vellum; Sold not subject to return (9)