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Binding poor. Boards rubbed with abrasions. Loss of leather at corners of boards. Leather spine very worn with losses at head and tail. Lettering piece on spine very worn and split. Joints very worn and split along entire length with chips and old insect holes to leather. Internally good. Moderate foxing. Previous owner's name on front endpaper "James McWilliam / Otaki".; 1697 edition of a translation first published in 1551. [12],1518 [=1520] columns, 506 [=508] columns, [52 (Index)] pages. 4 leaves (sig. Aaa aa), columns 1471-1486, are misbound between columns 1454 and 1455. Column numbers 417 and 418 in the Old Testament are repeated (the numbers only are repeated, not the whole columns). Column 485 misnumbered as 475. Column numbers 423 and 424 are repeated in the New Testament. Early full calf boards with 7 raised bands on spine. Gilt rule either side of bands. Folio. Page dimensions: 340 x 207mm. Text in Latin throughout. Title page printed in red and black, with oval portrait. No additional title leaf between the Old and New testaments. After the Apocalypsis is Castellio's "Defensio Suarum Translationum Bibliorum, et Maxime Novi Foederis" (columns 423-506). "Castellio was born in 1515 at Saint-Martin-du-Frêne in the village of Bresse of Dauphiné, the country bordering Switzerland, France, and Savoy. Under the Savoyard rule his family called itself Chateillon, Chatillon, or Chataillon. Having been educated at the age of twenty at the University of Lyon, Castellio was fluent in both French and Italian, and became an expert in Latin, Hebrew and Greek as well. Subsequently, he learned German as he started to write theological works in the various languages of Europe.His education, zeal and theological knowledge were so outstanding that he was considered to be one of the most learned men of his time equal, if not superior, to John Calvin. Regarding Castellio, according to A Conscience Against Violence of Stefan Zweig, Voltaire wrote: "We can measure the virulence of this tyranny by the persecution to which Castellio was exposed at Calvin's instance although Castellio was a far greater scholar than Calvin, whose jealousy drove him out of Geneva." - Wikipedia entry on Sebastian Castellio, accessed October 2023.] [Darlow/ Moule 6249: "A new and enlarged edition of Chateillon's version. The fresh matter includes a description of the Jewish Commonwealth from Josephus, a longer note on Romans is dealing with predestination, and the translator's defence of his version against Beza."]. Seller Inventory # 25335
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