- A few minor imperfections: some paper letterpieces on spine lacking; ties lacking; vols.1 and 6 some wormholes at beginning and end (not affecting text); occas. marg. waterst. Overall a very good copy.
= Graesse II, p.22. The very rare and hardly ever found complete for sale, first collected edition of Jean Calvin's (1509-1564) theological works. Only sold twice at auction on the continent from 1950-2022 (JAP).
Contents: I. Commentarios in quinque libros Mosis complectens. Genesis seorsim, reliqui quatuor in formam harmoniae sunt digesti, cum triplici indice ... Ejusdem Calvini in librum Josue commentarius. II. 1. Continens homilias in I. Librum Samuelis & conciones in librum Jobi .... II. 2. Continens conciones in librum Jobi ... / cum praef. Theodori Bezae. III. Commentarium in librum Psalmorum & praelectiones in duodecim prophetas (quos vocant) minores complectens ... IV. 1. Prophetas majores, quos vocant, nempe Isaiam, Jeremiam, Ezechielem, Danielem, commentariis & praelectionibus accuratissimis expositos. IV. complectens. IV. 2. Praelectiones in librum, prophetiarum, Jeremiae & lamentationes complectens / ex Joannis Budaei & Caroli Jonvillaei labore & industria excepta. V. Continens i. Commentarios in harmoniam ex tribus evangelistis, Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, compositam, & in Johannis evangelium. ii. In acta apostolorum. iii. In omnes epistolas Pauli, atque etiam in epistolam ad Hebraeos & in epistolas canonicas. V. 2. Continens commentarios in integros in acta apostolorum. V. 3. Continens Commentarois in omnes epistolas Sancti Pauli apostoli, atque etiam in epistolas ad Hebraeos, & epistolas canonicas. VI. ... Institutionis Christianae religionis libri quatuor ... ; ejusdem Calvini epistolae & responsae. VII. Continens tractatus theologicos omnes, in unum volumen certis classibus congesto : ... cui accesserunt ejusdem Calvini in libros Senecae de clementia commentarii.
Calvin was a theologian and ecclesiatical statesman and his influence on western society can hardly be overestimated. He was the leading French Protestant reformer and the most important figure in the second generation of the Protestant Reformation. His interpretation of Christianity, advanced above all in his Institutio Christianae religionis (1536 but elaborated in later editions;Institutes of the Christian Religion), and the institutional and social patterns he worked out for Geneva deeply influenced Protestantism elsewhere in Europe and in North America. The Calvinist form of Protestantism is widely thought to have had a major impact on the formation of the modern world.