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[Print series from: Verzameling van verschillende gekleede mans- en vrouwen-standen, ter oefening van jonge schilders en liefhebbers, naar 't leven geteekend]. [Rotterdam, J. Immerzeel, 1818 (engraved ca. 1790)]. 4to or cut down folio. A series of 32 (of 33) numbered full-page aquatint and stipple-engraved prints. Lacking plate 5, which has been replaced by an aquatint of a woman cleaning fish by Hermanus Fock. With 2 extra prints loosely inserted: colour-printed versions (inked a la poupée) of plates 20 and 25. Mid-19th-century half maroon sheepskin.
[Print series from: Verzameling van verschillende gekleede mans- en vrouwen-standen, ter oefening van jonge schilders en liefhebbers, naar 't leven geteekend]. [Rotterdam, J. Immerzeel, 1818 (engraved ca. 1790)]. 4to or cut down folio. A series of 32 (of 33) numbered full-page aquatint and stipple-engraved prints. Lacking plate 5, which has been replaced by an aquatint of a woman cleaning fish by Hermanus Fock. With 2 extra prints loosely inserted: colour-printed versions (inked a la poupée) of plates 20 and 25. Mid-19th-century half maroon sheepskin.
[PERKOIS, Jacob and Johannes Hubertus PRINS]. · 1756
€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)
33 engr. ll.An aquatint and stipple-engraved print series of costumes and professions. They were drawn by Perkois (1756-1804) and Prins (1757-1806) ca. 1790 and engraved by Sallieth (1749-1791) as models for young artists to follow. The 1818 publication indicates that they had...
Berigt, van constig-gemaeckte sneeuwe beelden van half Januario tot het begin Februarii tot Antwerpen gezien . . . Antwerp, Joannes Petrus de Cort, 1772. 4to. With title-page in a geometric border built up from cast fleurons and each page in a thick-thin border built up from cast units. 19th-century(?) decorated cloth, modern endpapers.
Berigt, van constig-gemaeckte sneeuwe beelden van half Januario tot het begin Februarii tot Antwerpen gezien . . . Antwerp, Joannes Petrus de Cort, 1772. 4to. With title-page in a geometric border built up from cast fleurons and each page in a thick-thin border built up from cast units. 19th-century(?) decorated cloth, modern endpapers.
[PAUWELS, Jan Antoon Frans]. · 1747
€1,600.00 ($1,763.53 | £1,334.63 | ¥281,647)
30 pp.Rare first and only edition a long poem, by the prolific Antwerp poet Jan Antoon Frans Pauwels (1747-1823), praising the many snow sculptures made in Antwerp during the severe winter of 1771/72. After an introduction praising the arts and the city of Antwerp, the poet te...
Grondig onderrigt in de teeken- en schilderkunst, inzonderheid in miniatuur, ten nutte van jonge kunstoefenaren. Naar het Fransch van Mansion.Leeuwarden, Lambertus Schierbeek, 1830. 12mo (15.5 x 9 cm). With folding lithographed frontispiece, coloured by hand, showing a palette of colours. Contemporay purple half morocco, gold- and blind-tooled spine.
Grondig onderrigt in de teeken- en schilderkunst, inzonderheid in miniatuur, ten nutte van jonge kunstoefenaren. Naar het Fransch van Mansion.Leeuwarden, Lambertus Schierbeek, 1830. 12mo (15.5 x 9 cm). With folding lithographed frontispiece, coloured by hand, showing a palette of colours. Contemporay purple half morocco, gold- and blind-tooled spine.
EELKEMA, Eelke Jelles and André Léon LARUE (MANSION).
€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)
XII (incl. frontispiece), 131, [1 blank] pp.Rare first edition of a schoolbook on art, teaching beginners the basic rules of drawing and painting, especially in miniature. Eelke Jelles Eelkema, an artist himself, adapted the book after a French work by the miniaturist painter ...
Spiegel der natuur en school ter teekenkunde, bevattende LXXVI. Afbeeldingen van Landschappen, Landsdouwen, Watergezichten, enz. enz. Allen zoo veele Studiën van Silvestre, Perelle, Quinault, Du Moulin, Della Bella, Zaftleven, Almeloveen, Van Schyndel, Nolpe, Vermeulen, Visscher en Schenk, ten dienste van Teekenaaren, Plaatsnijders, Goud- en Zilversmeden en drijvers: bijzonder nuttig voor hun, die zichzelven het teekenen willen leeren zonder hulp van meester. Vooräfgegaan de eerste beginselen der Teekenkunst.Amsterdam, Jan Steven van Esveld-Holtrop, [ca. 1808-1833]. Oblong 8vo. With 76 full-page engraved plates in various styles and sizes. The last 6 folding. Contemporary half calf with gold-tooled spine, blue title-label and marbled sides.
Spiegel der natuur en school ter teekenkunde, bevattende LXXVI. Afbeeldingen van Landschappen, Landsdouwen, Watergezichten, enz. enz. Allen zoo veele Studiën van Silvestre, Perelle, Quinault, Du Moulin, Della Bella, Zaftleven, Almeloveen, Van Schyndel, Nolpe, Vermeulen, Visscher en Schenk, ten dienste van Teekenaaren, Plaatsnijders, Goud- en Zilversmeden en drijvers: bijzonder nuttig voor hun, die zichzelven het teekenen willen leeren zonder hulp van meester. Vooräfgegaan de eerste beginselen der Teekenkunst.Amsterdam, Jan Steven van Esveld-Holtrop, [ca. 1808-1833]. Oblong 8vo. With 76 full-page engraved plates in various styles and sizes. The last 6 folding. Contemporary half calf with gold-tooled spine, blue title-label and marbled sides.
[PRINT ALBUM]. · 1840
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
IV pp. text.Very rare drawing manual with exceptionally fine plates by mainly 17th-century old masters. The confirmed artists of the prints are: Jan van Almeloveen, Cornelis Danckerts (I), Pieter de Molijn, Nicolas Perelle, Gillis van Scheyndel (I), Claes Jansz. Visscher (I). ...
Begebenheiten eines französischen Schiffsjungen auf einer unbewohntern Insel, oder der zwölfjährige Robinson.Zürich & Leipzig, Trachslerschen Buch- u. Kunsthandlung, [1824]. Small 8vo. With an illustrated engraved title-page, engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved plates, all aquatints which are richly and beautifully coloured by hand. Contemporary green cloth, gold-tooled spine.
Begebenheiten eines französischen Schiffsjungen auf einer unbewohntern Insel, oder der zwölfjährige Robinson.Zürich & Leipzig, Trachslerschen Buch- u. Kunsthandlung, [1824]. Small 8vo. With an illustrated engraved title-page, engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved plates, all aquatints which are richly and beautifully coloured by hand. Contemporary green cloth, gold-tooled spine.
[MALLÈS DE BEAULIEU, Jeanne-Sophie]. · 1818
€2,000.00 ($2,204.41 | £1,668.29 | ¥352,058)
324 pp.Second edition by Trachsler at Zürich, but the first with the Leipzig address added, of the German translation of the popular French Robinsonade for children by Jeanne-Sophie Mallès de Beaulieu, Le Robinson de douze ans, first published at Paris in 1818. The engraved pl...
Grammatica Arabica, breviter in usum scholarum academicarum conscripta ... Adiuncta est brevis chrestomathia, edita et lexico explanata a P. Cool.Leiden, Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1835. 8vo. Text set in Roman and Arabic type. Contemporary quarter brown cloth, marbled paper sides, a paper label with the name of the author and the title printed in black on the spine.
Grammatica Arabica, breviter in usum scholarum academicarum conscripta ... Adiuncta est brevis chrestomathia, edita et lexico explanata a P. Cool.Leiden, Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1835. 8vo. Text set in Roman and Arabic type. Contemporary quarter brown cloth, marbled paper sides, a paper label with the name of the author and the title printed in black on the spine.
ROORDA, Taco. · 1801
€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)
VIII, 298, [32] pp.First edition of an Arabic grammar by the Dutch professor of oriental languages Taco Roorda (1801-1874), followed by a lexicon based on the writer Al-Tha'alibi (961-1038) and an Arabic chrestomathy by P. Cool. Roorda’s grammar was published to replace a work...
Elementa architecturae, ad structura oeconomicas applicatae, in usum academiarum per Regnum Hungariae et eidem annexas provincias.Budapest, Typis Regiae Universitatis, 1779. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 76 architectural illustrations and figures on 11 folding engraved plates. With: BAUMEISTER, Friedrich Christian. Philosophiae moralis institutiones ius naturae, ethicam, et politicam complexae. Budapest, Typis Regiae Universitatis, 1779. Contemporary blind-tooled marbled calf.
Elementa architecturae, ad structura oeconomicas applicatae, in usum academiarum per Regnum Hungariae et eidem annexas provincias.Budapest, Typis Regiae Universitatis, 1779. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 76 architectural illustrations and figures on 11 folding engraved plates. With: BAUMEISTER, Friedrich Christian. Philosophiae moralis institutiones ius naturae, ethicam, et politicam complexae. Budapest, Typis Regiae Universitatis, 1779. Contemporary blind-tooled marbled calf.
RAUSCH VON TRAUBENBERG, Franz. · 1743
€800.00 ($881.77 | £667.32 | ¥140,823)
XVI, 158; 235, [5] pp.Two rare text books published by and for the University of Budapest in Hungary. The first is an original edition of a practical manual on contemporary architecture, by the German professor in Mathematics at the University of Budapest, Franz Rausch von Tra...
Catálago de la biblioteca de Salvá."Valencia, Ferrer de Orga, 1782" (=Barcelona, Porter Libros, 1963). 2 volumes. 4to. Many illustrations in text. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.
Catálago de la biblioteca de Salvá."Valencia, Ferrer de Orga, 1782" (=Barcelona, Porter Libros, 1963). 2 volumes. 4to. Many illustrations in text. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.
SALVÁ Y MALLEN, Pedro. · 1963
€225.00 ($248.00 | £187.68 | ¥39,607)
XXXII, 706, 1, [1 blank]; [8], 900 pp.Facsimile edition from 1963 of the catologue of the library of Vincente Salva y Perez (1780-1849). Salva started to catalogue his famous collection of around 4000 books, ranging from the 16th-century up to the 19th-century, and the project...
Het boeck van den oproer der Weder-dooperen. Eerst int Latijn beschreven, ende ghedruckt tot Basel ... Ende nu in Nederlandts overgheset. ...Enkhuizen, Jacob Lenaertsz Meyn, 1614. Folio. With 1 half-page and 8 full-page engraved plates in text (one repeat). Contemporary vellum.
Het boeck van den oproer der Weder-dooperen. Eerst int Latijn beschreven, ende ghedruckt tot Basel ... Ende nu in Nederlandts overgheset. ...Enkhuizen, Jacob Lenaertsz Meyn, 1614. Folio. With 1 half-page and 8 full-page engraved plates in text (one repeat). Contemporary vellum.
HORTENSIUS, Lambertus. · 1534
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
[4], 26 ll.The first Dutch edition (in the first state) of a detailed and graphic description of the Anabaptist attempt to establish a sectarian government in Münster, known as the Münster Rebellion, 1534-1535. The work includes a description of the Amsterdam Riots and is dedi...
Gebete der hochdeutschen und polnischen Juden. Aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen.Vienna, Anton Schmid, 1815. 8vo. The book is mainly printed in Gothic type with some Hebrew types to the titles and in the notes. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, with a brown label on the spine.
Gebete der hochdeutschen und polnischen Juden. Aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen.Vienna, Anton Schmid, 1815. 8vo. The book is mainly printed in Gothic type with some Hebrew types to the titles and in the notes. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, with a brown label on the spine.
EUCHEL, Isaac Abraham. · 1786
€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)
458 pp.Rare later edition of the German translation by Isaac Abraham Euchel of a Hebrew prayerbook for German and Polish Jews. It is Euchel's chief work, who was one of the most important German jews of the Enlightenment. The original edition of the Gebete appeared in 1786 in ...
Gebete der hochdeutschen und polnischen Juden. Aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen.Vienna, J.B. Zweck, 1813. 8vo. With a woodcut head-piece. The book is printed in Gothic type, with the original titles also in Hebrew type. Contemporary blind-tooled half calf.
Gebete der hochdeutschen und polnischen Juden. Aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen.Vienna, J.B. Zweck, 1813. 8vo. With a woodcut head-piece. The book is printed in Gothic type, with the original titles also in Hebrew type. Contemporary blind-tooled half calf.
EUCHEL, Isaac Abraham. · 1786
€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)
[4], 394, [2] pp.Very rare copy of an important work for the history of the German Jews in the age of Emancipation. One of the many editions of these Gebete, which are translated from the Hebrew, the chief work of Isaac Euchel, one of the most important German jews of the Enli...
Sammlung Einiger von dem Ordinario Fratrum während seines Aufenthalts in den Teutschen Gemeinen von Anno 1755 bis 1757 gehaltenen Kinder-Reden.Barby, Seminario Theologico, 1758. 8vo. With ornamental woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorated initials. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled marbled calf, red edges.
Sammlung Einiger von dem Ordinario Fratrum während seines Aufenthalts in den Teutschen Gemeinen von Anno 1755 bis 1757 gehaltenen Kinder-Reden.Barby, Seminario Theologico, 1758. 8vo. With ornamental woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorated initials. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled marbled calf, red edges.
[ZINZENDORF, Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von]. · 1700
€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)
[8], 454, [20] pp.Rare first edition of a collection of sermons for children held by the spiritual leader and founder of the Moravian Brethren at Hernnhut, near Dresden in Saxen, Germany. After he studied law in Wittenberg and a short career in civil service at Dresden, Nikola...
Historie vande mirakelen die onlancx in grooten ghetale ghebeurt zyn, door die interesse ende voor-bidden van die H. Maget Maria. Op een plaetse genoemt Scherpen-heuvel by die stadt van Sichen in Brabant.Brussels, Rutgeert Velpius, 1606. With: (2) NUMAN, Philip. Toe-voechsele van den mirakelen gheschiedt op Scherpen-heuvel, door het aenroepen van onse Lieve Vrouwe ...Brussels, Rutgeert Velpius, 1606. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved vignette of the Holy Virgin on the title-pages of ad 1 and ad 2, woodcut decorated initials (at least 2 series) and head-pieces. 19th-century gold-tooled half red leather and marbled paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine.
Historie vande mirakelen die onlancx in grooten ghetale ghebeurt zyn, door die interesse ende voor-bidden van die H. Maget Maria. Op een plaetse genoemt Scherpen-heuvel by die stadt van Sichen in Brabant.Brussels, Rutgeert Velpius, 1606. With: (2) NUMAN, Philip. Toe-voechsele van den mirakelen gheschiedt op Scherpen-heuvel, door het aenroepen van onse Lieve Vrouwe ...Brussels, Rutgeert Velpius, 1606. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved vignette of the Holy Virgin on the title-pages of ad 1 and ad 2, woodcut decorated initials (at least 2 series) and head-pieces. 19th-century gold-tooled half red leather and marbled paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine.
NUMAN, Philip. · 1604
€700.00 ($771.54 | £583.90 | ¥123,220)
[1], [1 blank] [12], 257 [1]; [1], [1 blank], [14], 88, [37], 48, [1] pp.Two very rare collections of case-histories of the miracles wrought by Maria of Scherpenheuvel, listed by Philip Numan, secretary of the city of Brussels and of the Archbishop of Malines, and published by...
Methodischer Unterricht der Jugend in der Religion und Sittenlehre der Vernunft nach dem in der Philalethie angegebenen Plane.Altona, David Iversen, 1764.With: (2) BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. Methodischer Unterricht in der überzeugenden Erkenntniss der biblischen Religion, zur vorgesetzten Ausführung des in der Philalethie angegebenen Plans.Altona, David Iversen, 1764. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved illustration on both title-pages (not identical) and some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Slightly later brown pastepaper boards, with title-label on spine, red sprinkled edges.
Methodischer Unterricht der Jugend in der Religion und Sittenlehre der Vernunft nach dem in der Philalethie angegebenen Plane.Altona, David Iversen, 1764.With: (2) BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. Methodischer Unterricht in der überzeugenden Erkenntniss der biblischen Religion, zur vorgesetzten Ausführung des in der Philalethie angegebenen Plans.Altona, David Iversen, 1764. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved illustration on both title-pages (not identical) and some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Slightly later brown pastepaper boards, with title-label on spine, red sprinkled edges.
BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. · 1724
€2,000.00 ($2,204.41 | £1,668.29 | ¥352,058)
LXII, 272; XXXII, 224, 144 pp.First edition of the first educational work by the well-known German pedagogue and reformer Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724-1790). In his extensive preface to both parts Basedow lists the errors of the old forms of education and exposes his own view...
't Schat der zielen, dat is: Het geheele leven ons Heeren Jesu Christi naer de vyer Evangelisten. Naer vervolgh des tijdts by een ghevoeght, in seven stucken verdeelt. Met seer schoon figuren verciert, gesneden door C. van Sichem, voor P. J. P[aets].Amsterdam, Pieter J[acobsz]. P[aets], 1648. With 686 woodcuts, many full-page, by Christoph van Sichem (many with his monogram), after his own designs and after drawings and paintings by Aldegrever, Goltzius, Dürer, Bloemaert, the Wierix brothers, Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Joannes Stradanus, etc. 17th-century vellum, manuscript title on smooth spine.
't Schat der zielen, dat is: Het geheele leven ons Heeren Jesu Christi naer de vyer Evangelisten. Naer vervolgh des tijdts by een ghevoeght, in seven stucken verdeelt. Met seer schoon figuren verciert, gesneden door C. van Sichem, voor P. J. P[aets].Amsterdam, Pieter J[acobsz]. P[aets], 1648. With 686 woodcuts, many full-page, by Christoph van Sichem (many with his monogram), after his own designs and after drawings and paintings by Aldegrever, Goltzius, Dürer, Bloemaert, the Wierix brothers, Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Joannes Stradanus, etc. 17th-century vellum, manuscript title on smooth spine.
SICHEM, Christoffel II van. · 1581
€8,000.00 ($8,817.66 | £6,673.16 | ¥1,408,234)
800, [4] pp.First and only edition of a Catholic devotional book on the life of Christ (in 5 numbered parts), the works of the Apostles, saints' lives, and religious emblems, perhaps the most richly illustrated woodcut book of the 17th century, with almost 700 woodcuts by Van...
Trésor de livres rares et précieux ou nouveau dictionnaire bibliographique Milan, G.G. Görlich, 1950. 8 volumes, incl. supplement. Folio. Cloth.
Trésor de livres rares et précieux ou nouveau dictionnaire bibliographique Milan, G.G. Görlich, 1950. 8 volumes, incl. supplement. Folio. Cloth.
GRAESSE, Jean George Théodore. · 1859
€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)
Reprint of Graesse's monumental 8-volume general bibliography originally published 1859-1869. A good set.
Cijffer-boeck der heylige schrift. Over de gelden, gewigten, ende maten der Hebreen arithmetisch gereduceerd op gelden, gewigten ende maten onsen lande en tijdt gebruykelijck. Middelburgh, Gijsbertus Noorman, 1682. Small 8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. With woodcut vignette on 2 titles, and at the end of the second work, showing identical blank escutcheons. Contemporary vellum.
Cijffer-boeck der heylige schrift. Over de gelden, gewigten, ende maten der Hebreen arithmetisch gereduceerd op gelden, gewigten ende maten onsen lande en tijdt gebruykelijck. Middelburgh, Gijsbertus Noorman, 1682. Small 8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. With woodcut vignette on 2 titles, and at the end of the second work, showing identical blank escutcheons. Contemporary vellum.
NEEFF, Adriaan de.
€1,700.00 ($1,873.75 | £1,418.05 | ¥299,250)
[14], 63, [1 blank]; [4], 75, [5] pp.Popular schoolbook by a schoolteacher at Middelburg, teaching children arithmetic at the hand of the numbers quoted in the Bible. All the numbers of biblical amounts of money, measures or weights, were taught to be converted into contempora...
Latina grammatica ... in usum scholarum ...Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1666. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the 2 title-pages, first title-page printed in red and black, with some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red edges.
Latina grammatica ... in usum scholarum ...Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1666. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the 2 title-pages, first title-page printed in red and black, with some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red edges.
VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes. · 1627
€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)
[10], 176; 177, [3] pp.Rare edition of the most popular work on Latin (school) grammar and syntax in the Northern Netherlands, first published in 1627, by the famous humanist scholar Gerard Vossius (1577-1649). It was based upon an earlier popular grammar by Lodewijk Dijkgraaf...
Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. jussu recognita atque edita.Including: Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum, vulgatae editiones, Sixti V. Pont, Max jussu recognitum atque edititum.Antwerp, “Officina Plantiniana” [= Balthasar I Moretus, grandson of Christophe Plantin], 1629. 7 volumes bound as 9 (Old Testament I-VII & New Testament I-II). 24mo in 8s (11.5 x 7 cm). With a richly engraved general title page, 6 volume title pages (each with the same Plantin-Moretus woodcut compasses device), a smaller woodcut compasses device plus 3 (of 4) repeats (2 appear on the back of the colophon; each of the others on an otherwise blank leaf), woodcut tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman and italic types. The present copy with 3 extra letterpress divisional title pages, perhaps specially printed for this copy when it was bound. Uniform gold-tooled goatskin morocco (ca. 1700), sewn on 4 supports, richly gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges. Seven volumes with the ca. 1711 engraved armorial bookplate of Jean Le Normand (1662-1733), Bishop of Evreau, and probably bound for him (his bookplate probably removed from volumes II and III as bound).
Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. jussu recognita atque edita.Including: Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum, vulgatae editiones, Sixti V. Pont, Max jussu recognitum atque edititum.Antwerp, “Officina Plantiniana” [= Balthasar I Moretus, grandson of Christophe Plantin], 1629. 7 volumes bound as 9 (Old Testament I-VII & New Testament I-II). 24mo in 8s (11.5 x 7 cm). With a richly engraved general title page, 6 volume title pages (each with the same Plantin-Moretus woodcut compasses device), a smaller woodcut compasses device plus 3 (of 4) repeats (2 appear on the back of the colophon; each of the others on an otherwise blank leaf), woodcut tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman and italic types. The present copy with 3 extra letterpress divisional title pages, perhaps specially printed for this copy when it was bound. Uniform gold-tooled goatskin morocco (ca. 1700), sewn on 4 supports, richly gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges. Seven volumes with the ca. 1711 engraved armorial bookplate of Jean Le Normand (1662-1733), Bishop of Evreau, and probably bound for him (his bookplate probably removed from volumes II and III as bound).
[BIBLE - LATIN - VULGATE]. · 1621
€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)
574; [2], 575-729, [2], [5 blank]; “637” [= 635], [1], [1 blank], [4 blank] (in place of [1], [3 blank]); 192; 479, [1 blank]; 861, [2], [1 blank]; 128, [186], [6 blank]; 336, [2], 337-758, [2], [8 blank] pp.A small Latin Vulgate bible printed by the Plantin-Moretus office in ...