April 12, 2024
1837 VULGATE BIBLE IN FRENCH/3 VOLUMES/153 STEEL ENGRAVINGS/LEATHER BINDING
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BIBLE. [Vulgate bible in French-1837] Par Le Maistre De Sacy. La Bible, Traduction De La Vulgate. Ancien Testament. Nouvelle Edition, Ornée De Figures Gravées Sur Acier. Paris. Au Bureau Central, Rue Nueve-Vivienne, No. 36. Et Chez Les Principaux Libraires Des Départments et de L´Etranger 1837. Three Volumes. 153 steel engravings. Bound in a lovely green calf and marbled boards with gilt borders. Spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and date, silk bookmarks. Rubbing to the edges. Label removed from each spine. Top edges gilt. Marbled end pages with old bookplate and new bookplate, labels removed. Scattered foxing. Small two by two piece cut from each title page at the front edge, does not affect text. Few additional tears at page edges in volume one. Lovely full-page steel engravings throughout volumes, all printed on either a recto with verso blank, or a verso with recto blank. Many different engravers listed including Peronard, Lalaisse, Dunaime, Skelton, Canu, Rourgue, Monin, Colin, Branche et al. The engravings are clean and well executed. Vulgar Latin is a generic term of the nonstandard (as opposed to classical ) sociolects of Latin from which the Romance languages developed. The word vulgar in this case refers to its original meaning of common or vernacular , and not the more pejorative usage, tasteless or indecent
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