Du Buisson (Jean). Historia ac harmonia evangelica. Romæ, ap - Lot 217

Du Buisson (Jean). Historia ac harmonia evangelica. Romæ, apud Victorium Elianum, 1575. In-8, (24)-220-(8of which the last is blank)ff. in garnet-red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt foliage framed by a double gilt fillet with a painted coat of arms in the center, decorated edges, gilt edges, some rubbing (period binding). Second edition, published concurrently with the original which, printed in Douai in 1571 by Jean Bogard, was not distributed until 1575. The present Roman edition is illustrated with 3 woodcuts in the text: a Nativity, a Crucifixion and, on the title, the coat of arms of Pope GregoryXIII, the work's dedicatee. Vie du Christ avec concordance des quatre Évangiles, by Jean DuBuisson, professor at the University of Douai. The work is based in part on the Concordia evangelica published in 1549 by the Bishop of Ghent Cornelius Jansenius (namesake of the founder of Jansenism), with scholarly commentary. Antoine Arnauld is said to have published a revised edition of this Historia ac harmonia in 1654. Fine morocco decorated with the painted arms of Cardinal Felice Peretti, future Pope Sixtus V.