REFORM. - COTON (Pierre). Genève plagiaire ou Verification des depravations de la parole de Dieu, qui se trouvent és Bibles de Geneve. Paris, Sébastien Chapelet, 1618. Fort in-folio, 8 pp. including title-frontispice; (16) ff. preface (columns 9 to 72); (5) ff. table; 2242 columns of text; (9) ff. directory; vellum on bisautés wood, decorated with a fine frame and central shield in cold, spine ribbed, brass clasps worked (Binding of the time). Beautiful title-frontispiece by Jaspar Isaac. First edition of this treatise detailing the errors and manipulations of the Genevan French translations of the Bible. The Jesuit Pierre Coton, former confessor to kings Henri IV and Louis XIII, is indignant about the departures from the Vulgate, which reflect Calvinist positions. Stains on the binding, but a fine specimen in vellum.