LA SAINTE BIBLE, CONTENANT L'ANCIEN ET LE NOUVEAU TESTAMENT

by Fore-Edge Paintings

$950 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Paris: Chez L. Hachette, 1840 . 224 x 131 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 . 2 p.l., 822 pp., 1 leaf title , 1-259, 1 pp. Attractive contemporary scarlet morocco, covers ruled in blind, central panel with an elaborate gilt-tooled cross surrounded by a scrolling frame, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments tooled with small fleurons, turn-ins tooled in gilt, all edges gilt.features a well-executed and historically important

• Binding: Leather

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