BIBLE.

COUSIN (Jean). Figures of the stories of the Holy Bible, accompanied by brief discourses, containing the greater part of the sacred stories of the old and new Testaments, and of the admirable works of the living God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, and of Jesus Christ his only Son, our Saviour and Redeemer. For the ordinary exercise of devout & contemplative souls. Paris, Guillaume Le Bé, 1646. 2 parts in one volume in-folio, granite basane, spine decorated, red title, red speckled edges (Binding of the time). Remarkable engraved suite known as the Bible of Jean Cousin, illustrated with a large number of mid-page woodcuts. Titles decorated with an ornamental border with flowers, plants and birds. Text printed in a typographical frame. Eighteenth century handwritten bookplate on one of the titles and the first endpaper. Leaves C3, C4, N3 and N4 incomplete. Leaves Z2 and Z3 inverted. Transverse tear without missing the dedication leaf, small crack to some leaves. Binding rubbed, jaws split over a few centimetres.