LA SAINTE BIBLE qui contient le vieux et le nouveau testament by David Martin and Pierre Roques, pastor of the French church of Basles. New edition. Basle, Rodolphe im Hoff, 1744, in-12, 804 pp. - 262 pp, full black marble, 2 fillets framing the boards, cold fleuron in the center, smooth spine, decorated, gilt tr. (contemporary binding). With restored frontispiece. This Holy Bible given in 1827 by Father Nogaret to his son, and signed by Nogaret. pp. 622 and 623 in manuscript, one page blank. Chapters 52 and 53 and 54 incomplete, pp. 253 to 262 restored with qq. mq. Rousseurs.

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