Firmin Thomas (2 results)

Condition: Good. Large de luxe folio edition. 34 x 51.5cm. Modern half green shagreeen with matching marbled boards and endpapers. A few pages with waterstains , mainly in upper left corners, not affecting any images. 44pp. of letterpress and 72 color lithograph plates. References; Gordon Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, no. 125; Brunet V, 833; Lipperheide 1309; Bobins 602; Colas 2872; BNF31459915; OCLC Number 38703244.Édition originale de ce spectaculaire ouvrage merveilleusement illustré de 72 lithographies en couleurs, bien complet, par Jean-François Villain d'après Thomas, ce dernier ayant par ailleurs été lauréat du grand prix de Rome en 1816. Comporte 44 pages de descriptifs de planches également. Exemplaire en reliure moderne, demi-chagrin vert bien réalisé, exemplaire lavé, l'intérieur comporte de fortes mouillures, heureusement pour la plupart marginales et n'affectant qu'assez peu les planches en elle-mêmes. Certaines planches sont tout de même affectées, et le papier est un peu gondolé par endroits. L'ouvrage d'une grande rareté reste tout à fait attractif pour la superbe qualité des lithographies. Grand in-folio, 44pp. et planches.

Full Calf. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. Title page continues: "him whom the Father sanctified and sent, raised from the dead and exalted, and disproving the doctrine of three almighty, real, subsisting persons, minds, or spirits : giving also an account of the nominal Trinity, that is, three modes, subsistences, or somewhats in God, called by schoolmen Persons, and of the judgement of the Fathers and Catholick Church for the first 150 years : of which tracts the following pages give the titles." The titles are as follows : "Considerations on the doctrine of the trinity.; Animadversions on a postscript to the defence of Dr. Sherlock against the calm discours of the sober enquirer.; Letter to the reverend the clergy of both universities, concerning the Trinity and the Athanasian creed.; Reflections on the XXVII propositions touching the doctrine of the Trinity.; Reply to the second defense of the XXVIII propositions said to be wrote in answer to a Socinian manuscript.; Exceptions of Mr. Edwards, in his Causes of atheism, against the reasonableness of Christianity as delivered in the Scriptures.; Judgment of the Fathers concerning the doctrine of the Trinity, opposed to Dr. G. Bull's Defence of the Nicene faith.; Discours concerning the nominal and real trinitarians." Near Fine, recently professionally restored with new leather back and gilt lettering in keeping with the original, retaining the original tooled-in-blind calf boards in contemporary leather. Prior owner 1894 names and inscriptions front paste down and end page detailing circumstances of this book's acquisition, the 2nd blank front e.p. with a list of this and other antiquarian books acquired by this previous owner on her 1894 trip to Edinburgh, Scotland. The first tract (68 pages) uniformly browned, the rest of the tracts free of browning or toning. WorldCat notes "Place of publication suggested by Wing./ Each tract has special t.p. and separate pagination./ Sponsorship of the collections of tracts has been attributed to Thomas Firmin--NUC pre-1956 imprints." SCARCE in current commerce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.