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May 76
Paris - P. Proute
10F = $2.15

33x240mm Bible (Latin) H. a Porta (publisher);
Melchoir + Gospar Trechsel (pritners:
Lugduni, 1538. fol. C. 37. l. I.
Lugdunum = Lyons
(Latin)
p. 54 Short title Cat. French BM

p. 25, 26 capvt 3, 4
Exodus. V, Vi
13 1/8 x 9 1/2" (334x239mm)
The first Holbein Bible
(Seq. 46 pp indices Fol. 4ff non num. 285 ff num. 1-569

Vol VII p. 308 Bibliographie Lyonnaise
Biblia. Melchoir + Gaspar Trechsel Frateus
1538 In. fol. a 2 col. de 4 ff lim, 569 pp.
et 22 ff. n. chiff., figures d'Holbein. (younger)
Ce volue renferme contains 95 6 figures, fravees sur bois
parmi lesquelles se tronvent les 86 bois graves
d'apres les dessins se H. Holbein, probablement,
en premier tirage, dans atte [inserted] ces bois graves a Bale [end inserted] bible.
- Boudrier Ref. Z 145 L9B3

D.S. Berkowitz Ref N 8023 B4 #190 Bible with Holbien Woodcuts, 1544
Lyon, J+F Frellon, fr Hugodela Porte + heirs of A. de la Porte, Folio
322 leaves, 2 columns.

Roan type in text, small roman + italic in the margins
(13 1/8 x 9 1/2 334x239mm) 91 woodcuts in Old Testament, 7 in the New.
Many large + small historiated + floreated initials.
Woodcuts -> almost all of which are from Hand Holbein's
1986 sold for $17,500 Icons. There had originally appeared in Historiarum
published by the Frellons in 1538 of which the 2nd edition
in the following year identified the artist. They were also
used in the Bible which Hugs de la Porte published
in Lyon in 1538. The work exhibited here is thus the
2nd La Porte Bible illustrated with the Holbein cuts.
Bibliograpy: R. Mortimer I, 97-99. French 16th C books Harvard College Library

N 8023 S 894 J. Stranchan Historiarum Veteris Testamenti Icones ad vivam expressae
(Pictures of Old Testament Stories drawn to life) 4 0
Trechsel, M+G. Lyons 1538
Lempereur's illustrations were now for the most part
replaced by Holbein's 'Icones'. This was a very much
finer production than anything Tenned out by the