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Taferelen Der Voornaamste Geschiedenissen Van Het Oude En Nieuwe Testament,En Andere Boeken, Bij De Heilige Schrift Gevoegt, Door De Vermaarde Kunstenaars Hoet, Houbraken, en Picart Getekent, En Van De Beste Meesters In Koper Gesneden, En Met Beschrijvingen Uitgebreid. Het Eerste Deel. Translated: Scenes Of The Principal Histories Of The Old And New Testament, And Other Books Added To Holy Scripture, Drawn By The Renowned Artists Hoet, Houbraken, and Picart, And Engraved On Copper By The Best Masters, And Expanded With Descriptions. Dutch Picture Bible, 3 vols.
The Hague
- Date
- 1728
- Place
- The Hague
- Publisher
- Pieter De Hondt
- Language
- Dutch, German, French, English, Latin, Hebrew
- Binding
- Folio.(14" x 20") Three volumes complete. Imperial Paper edition with very wide margins to plates. Brown mottled leather, panel-style binding with fancy gilt rule framing a centered large gilt arabesque device to both covers. Spines with 8 gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to brown leather in second and third compartments, large gilt arabesque devices centered to each other compartment. All edges marbled. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips. Head and foot of each volume chipped, with loss, one volume moreso than others (see pic). Extremities rubbed, scuffed with some loss to board edges. Very ornate binding but rather worn and scuffed with small losses. Boards tender, starting to split at hinges but still securely attached. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages, 210 spectacular copper engravings of Biblical stories, 28 of them double page. Decorative bookplates of Wolvenbosch in the Netherlands, to front pastedowns. Each plate described in 6 languages;
- Category
- Bibles & Prayer Books
- Record
- S.I.9639
Taferelen Der Voornaamste Geschiedenissen Van Het Oude En Nieuwe Testament,En Andere Boeken, Bij De Heilige Schrift Gevoegt, Door De Vermaarde Kunstenaars Hoet, Houbraken, en Picart Getekent, En Van De Beste Meesters In Koper Gesneden, En Met Beschrijvingen Uitgebreid. Het Eerste Deel. Translated: Scenes Of The Principal Histories Of The Old And New Testament, And Other Books Added To Holy Scripture, Drawn By The Renowned Artists Hoet, Houbraken, and Picart, And Engraved On Copper By The Best Masters, And Expanded With Descriptions. Dutch Picture Bible, 3 vols. 1728. The Hague: Pieter De Hondt. Folio.(14" x 20") Three volumes complete. Imperial Paper edition with very wide margins to plates. Brown mottled leather, panel-style binding with fancy gilt rule framing a centered large gilt arabesque device to both covers. Spines with 8 gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to brown leather in second and third compartments, large gilt arabesque devices centered to each other compartment. All edges marbled. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips. Head and foot of each volume chipped, with loss, one volume moreso than others (see pic). Extremities rubbed, scuffed with some loss to board edges. Very ornate binding but rather worn and scuffed with small losses. Boards tender, starting to split at hinges but still securely attached. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages, 210 spectacular copper engravings of Biblical stories, 28 of them double page. Decorative bookplates of Wolvenbosch in the Netherlands, to front pastedowns. Each plate described in 6 languages.
Condition
Very Good
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