Calvin, J. In viginti prima Ezechielis Prophetae capita Praelectiones, Ioannis...
Calvin, J. In viginti prima Ezechielis Prophetae capita Praelectiones, Ioannis Budaei & Caroli Ionvillaei labore & industria exceptae. Pref. Th. Beza. Geneva, F. Perrin, 1565, (10),412,(20) lvs., contemp. richly blindstamped pigskin over wooden covers, with portrait medallions of i.a. Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther and Philip Melanchton on both covers, two brass-and-leather catches.
- Owner's stamp of J.D. de Lind van Wijngaarden on first free endpaper; contemp. annots. in pen and ink on first blank and title-p. Pigskin sl. soiled/ worn at 2 corners; lacks clasps. A very good copy in a fine contemp. binding.
= Rare first ed. of Calvin's (posthumously published) last work, a commentary on the first twenty books of the prophet Ezekiel. Adams C300; Moeckli 61; Erichson p.30; Bibliotheca Calviniana III, 65/6.
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Calvin, J. In viginti prima Ezechielis Prophetae capita Praelectiones, Ioannis Budaei & Caroli Ionvillaei labore & industria exceptae. Pref. Th. Beza. Geneva, F. Perrin, 1565, (10),412,(20) lvs., contemp. richly blindstamped pigskin over wooden covers, with portrait medallions of i.a. Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther and Philip Melanchton on both covers, two brass-and-leather catches.
- Owner's stamp of J.D. de Lind van Wijngaarden on first free endpaper; contemp. annots. in pen and ink on first blank and title-p. Pigskin sl. soiled/ worn at 2 corners; lacks clasps. A very good copy in a fine contemp. binding.
= Rare first ed. of Calvin's (posthumously published) last work, a commentary on the first twenty books of the prophet Ezekiel. Adams C300; Moeckli 61; Erichson p.30; Bibliotheca Calviniana III, 65/6.
