In libros paralipomenon, sive Chronicorum commentarius [Ensemble] Praelectiones Iannis Calvini [Ensemble] In Apocalypsim Iesu Christi revelatam quidem per angelum domini

Rare Collection of Three Theological Commentaries: 

-In libros Paralipomenon, sive Chronicorum Commentarius. Ludwig Lavater. Printed by Christophorus Froschoverus, Zurich, 1573. First edition, with the printer’s mark on the title-page. Preface by Ludwig Lavater dated February 1573. Numerous genealogical tables.

- Praelectiones Ioannis Calvini in librum prophetiarum Danielis. Jean Calvin. Edited by Jean Budée and Charles de Jonvilliers. Apud Bartholomaeum Vincentium, 1571. Place not indicated, but almost certainly Geneva, based on typographical evidence and the preface dated 14 September 1571. Hebrew text in bold, with translation to the left and commentary in smaller type beneath.  First edition.

- In Apocalypsim Iesu Christi revelatam quidem per angelum domini. Heinrich Bullinger. Bâle. Ioannem Oporinum. 1559. Printer's device on title-page. First edition, illustrated with two large historiated initials.

Contemporary pigskin binding, spine with five plain raised bands, large Renaissance blind-stamped panel on the boards comprising a succession of decorative frames: the two central with floral motifs, the next with medallions depicting profile figures, then the virtues (Faith, Fortune, Charity…), and finally another floral frieze with medallions and profiles.

Traces of clasps. Three tears to the spine with losses. Wormholes on the upper board. Restorations to the lower right corner of the upper board, to the corners and clasps of the lower board. Losses to the lower joint at head and tail of the lower board.

All three volumes are the work of Swiss Protestant theologians. Ludwig Lavater thus worked within the circle of his father-in-law, Heinrich Bullinger, both based in Zurich. At that time, German-speaking Switzerland was predominantly Lutheran and hostile to Geneva, and Calvin undertook a major agreement to unify Swiss Protestantism, resulting in the Consensus Tigurinus, signed by Calvin and Bullinger on behalf of Zurich. The gathering of these three theological works symbolically represents the unity of Swiss Protestantism, setting it apart from Lutheranism. The first commentary book to establish a chronicle of events and genealogies within the Paralipomena. 

The second work is Calvin’s commentary on the Book of Daniel, while the third offers an exegesis of the Apocalypse according to the Revelation of Christ.