Maistre de Saci. La Sainte Bible, Contenant l'Ancien et le nouveau testament, traduit en francois sur la Vulgate. Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, Bastien et Ponce, Gay, Ponce, Belin. 1789- An XII (1804). 12 volumes. With 300 etched and engraved illustrations on thick wove paper (252 after Marillier, 48 after Monsiaux, and one large folding map of the Holy Land by Tardieu). Bound in brown leather with gilt rule on boards and gilt lettering on spine. All edges gilt. A handsome binding.Exceptional edition, especially when one imagines the difficulties encountered in publishing a Bible, even a luxury one, during the revolutionary period. Cohen 935-936; Reynaud 489-490.

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