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1556 Bible, J. de Tournes, w/ Bernard Salomon woodcuts Picture(s) and Description:
“Biblia Sacra Ad optima quaeque veteris, ut vocant, tralationis exemplaria ...etc.” Lyons, Ioan. Tornaesium (Jean de Tournes), 1556, very early /1st. (?) folio Latin ed., later calf-backed boards, worn at edges (some sun fading also), spine, and corners bumped. Title page with some worming at top and ownership inscriptions aside woodcut printers’ mark (of a sower beneath a scrolling banner reading: “Nos Art En Dieu”) [Darlow & Moule 3168]. This edition notable for its remarkable typography with some Crible-Initials and numerous inhabited woodcut verse initials, 66 lines of double column text in Roman letter with Roman and Italic marginalia; and Hebrew and Greek typeface in supplementary index of names. [Approximate cover size: 14“ x 9 3/4“] Title page, verso blank; PLUS five folios of preface/preliminaries, ending with the contents page for the Old and New Testament on the verso of the fifth folio; AND 658 pp. (of 660, i.e. missing the sixth leaf of the signature “p” gathering comprising the pages 179 & 180, which contained a full page woodcut and verses 1 through 49 of Chapter 8, from the Third Book of Kings); BUT otherwise complete, including 54 folio appendix, for Interpretation of Names, etc. Therefore, the book is missing one leaf (pp.179 & 180) and some text due to a missing corner from the top of another leaf, i.e., pp. 195and 196. 174 in-text woodcut illustrations by Bernard Salomon, plus 4 (of 5) full page woodcut illustrations related to King Solomon’s Temple. 108 Old Testament illustrations (58 x 82 mm) and 66 New Testament illustrations (62 x 50 mm), with the N.T. illustrations extended to fit within a single “column width” justification, like the O.T. woodcuts, by addition of arabesque strip borders on both sides. Some browning and light waterstaining most notable towards end, occasional old entries by hand (strap border design sketches in red plummet at bottom of pp. 660) , a few edges repaired, and top corner to pp. 195/6 missing, with loss to top 11 lines of outer column text. Images from a flatbed scanner appearing in this listing crops off one end or the other of leaves due to being longer than the scanner, but camera images of book open to two facing pages displays the true margins. Perhaps no name is more associated with book illustration of the French Renaissance than that of Bernard Salomon. As said so well by Robert A. Baron (in his on-line treatment of: “Emblem and Narrative in Bernard Salomon's Illustrations to the Old Testament”): The works attributed to Salomon epitomize the peaks of humanistic and religious interests of French Renaissance scholars and publishers. For example, works ascribed to him include a large series for Aesop's fables, the popular emblems of Alciati, two distinct Old Testament series (the earlier and less well known set measuring 40 x 50mm, and the larger better known series measuring 58 x 82mm), another for the New Testament; the Metamorphoses; and many other illustrations that reveal both the breadth and depth of sixteenth-century curiosity about the natural, humanistic, and Christian worlds. In short, Salomon's illustrations form a cross-section of Renaissance interests as exemplified by the books emanating from that vortex of publishing activity, Lyons. Indeed, the emblem his publisher, Jean de Tournes, most frequently used to identify his productions was that of Le Semeur, the sower, emblematic, no doubt of the publisher's mission to spread the word of reformist Christianity by virtue of books translated into the native languages of literate European public. Along with an earlier work from 1514 (“Catalogus sanctorum ...”, also currently offered on eBay), these two works arguably capture the beginning and the end of the first stage of post-incunabular printing upon French art, thought, and society (from the end of any semblance of one monolithic Catholic church to the start of many reforms and schisms promulgated by the spread of information and foreshadowing the course of Western culture for the next few centuries, if not up to our present day). This is NOT a reproduction, but is a 16th Century Bible. Shop around and compare and you’ll see that similar bibles can sell for thousands of dollars, if available at any price. I am a dealer closing out my business and am listing a few items WITHOUT RESERVE for sale on eBay. Please look for my other items closing around the end of this auction, as I will combine shipping (except cumulative insurance coverage requested for non-domestic USPS delivery, if any, must be borne by buyer). All buyers must add $15.00 to the bid of at least one of my items for insured/registered/domestic USPS mail (which includes coverage up to the first $10,000.00); but actual S & H fees charged for express or private courier service dispatch & COST for international as you instruct (but please do NOT ask me to falsify shipping manifests, values, etc.). Close-out sales are final, although all costs will be refunded upon return of items, in condition as dispatched within three days of receipt, but only due to a significant inaccuracy in description. Please contact me with any questions you may have - Thanks for looking - & Good luck with your bids! The address of record for this sale is Quill & Vellum Mss., P. O. Box 3807, Evergreen, CO 80439-3807 USA (Colorado residents -or- shipping destinations - add 7.5% to the winning bid price for sales tax).
