Calvin, John
Opera omnia; in novem tomos digesta
£819
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Amsterdam: Jan Jakobsz. Schipper, 1667-71. 9 volumes, folio (37.5 x 22cm), contemporary Dutch vellum, central arabesques to covers in blind, manuscript spine-titles, volume 1 with half-title, title-page printed in red and black with printer's woodcut ship device, full-length engraved portrait of Calvin in his library to *1 v., and engraved map of the Middle East ('Situs Paradisi et Cananaeae') to p. 12, volumes 2-9 each with engraved portrait of Calvin to title-page, additional part-title to volume 5 (also with the engraved portrait), occasional Hebrew types, covers dust-soiled
Footnote
Note:
Schipper's famous edition of the works of Calvin remained the definitive scholarly account for two centuries, with no attempt at another edition on the same scale being made until the Strasbourg edition of 1863-1900.
Provenance:
John Philip Gell (1816-1898), Church of England clergyman and pioneering educator in Tasmania under Sir John Franklin, presented by him to Charles Evans of Blackwall, Derbyshire with a note by Evans dated 1869 to the front pastedown of volume one; thence by descent to J. B. E. Blackwall, probably John Blackwall Evans Blackwall JP (1838-1912), with his bookplates.