(Religion, Bible) - [HOLBEIN le jeune, Hans].- Icones historiarum veteris testamenti [...]. Lugduni [Lyon], apud Joannem Frellonium, 1547. In-4° : [52] lvs (washed, uniformly yellowed, margins of lvs L2-L3-L4 renewed, tear in lf. L4). Bound by...
Estimation :
1.200 / 1.500
Description
Chambolle-Duru : black morocco, ribbed spine, gilt double fillets on the edges, gilt roll-stamps on the turn ins, gilt edges (flyleaves renewed).
First issue of this edition with the quatrain on leaf L : "Du peuple Juif les grandz pechez et vices, Pleure et lamente Isaie prophete, Puis Dieu (par luy) de ce peuple reiecte, L'hipocrisie avec leurs sacrifices". Illustrated with 98 woodcuts in the text whom 4 figuring the Evangelists by Hans Holbein the Younger. Those vignettes had already been published in 1538 by Gaspar Trechsel in Lyon (92 woodcuts with Latin descriptions). The illustrations in this edition are accompanied by Latin and French captions of the writer and printer Gilles Corrozet (1510-1568). Mark of Frellon on title-page. # Baudrier V-209; # Adams B-1963; # USTC 79186; # Funck 276 and 336 (ed. 1540); # not in Soltész nor in Machiels. 1 Suite de 98 bois par Hans Holbein le jeune illustrant l'Ancien Testament. Plein maroquin noir par Chambolle-Duru (ex. lavé, ff. L2-L3-L4 remargés).
First issue of this edition with the quatrain on leaf L : "Du peuple Juif les grandz pechez et vices, Pleure et lamente Isaie prophete, Puis Dieu (par luy) de ce peuple reiecte, L'hipocrisie avec leurs sacrifices". Illustrated with 98 woodcuts in the text whom 4 figuring the Evangelists by Hans Holbein the Younger. Those vignettes had already been published in 1538 by Gaspar Trechsel in Lyon (92 woodcuts with Latin descriptions). The illustrations in this edition are accompanied by Latin and French captions of the writer and printer Gilles Corrozet (1510-1568). Mark of Frellon on title-page. # Baudrier V-209; # Adams B-1963; # USTC 79186; # Funck 276 and 336 (ed. 1540); # not in Soltész nor in Machiels. 1 Suite de 98 bois par Hans Holbein le jeune illustrant l'Ancien Testament. Plein maroquin noir par Chambolle-Duru (ex. lavé, ff. L2-L3-L4 remargés).
