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Biblia sacra [1657]. Illustrated with ca.1200 woodcuts by Christoffel van Sichem, after Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, Holbein, Penez, Goltzius (…).

Description

Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated bible ever issued in the Low Countries Biblia sacra. Dat is de geheele heylighe schrifture bedeylt int out ende nieu Testament: van nieus met groote neersticheyt oversien, ende naer den lesten Roomschen text verbetert door sommighe doctoren inder Heyligher Godtheyt inde vermaerde universiteyt van Loven. Antwerpen, "Eerst T'Antwerpen bij Jan van Moerentorf [Moretus/ Plantin-Press] en nu herdrukt bij Pieter Jacobsz Paets", 1657/ (New Testament 1646), 2 parts in 1 volume, (8)-1270 [= 1268]; 468 [= 442]-(6) pag., engraved title with coat of arms of the dedicatee Ambrosius Capello, bishop of Antwerp on verso, richly illustrated with circa 1200 woodcuts by Christoffel van Sichem, after Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, Holbein, Penez, Goltzius, modern simili-leather with raised bands, folio

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£1850.00