Afbeeldingen Der Voornaamste Historien, Soo Van Het Oude Als Nieuwe Testament, Door Verscheide Van De Geestrykste En Vermaardste Tekenaars En Plaatsnyders Seer Konstig Afgebeeld: Zynde Tot Verklaringe Van Ieder Afbeeldinge Daar By Gevoegt, Sinryke Rymen, In De Latynse, Franse, Engelse, Hoog-En Nederduitse Talen: Midsgaders Een Kort Historisch Varhaal In Prosa, Van Ieder Afbeeldinge. Tot Amsteldam, Uitgegeven Door Nicolaus Visscher. c.a. 1700.
Images of the Principal Stories, Both from the Old and the New Testament, Very Artfully Depicted by Various of the Most Spirited and Renowned Designers and Engravers: With Each Image Is Added an Explanation in the Form of Meaningful Rhymes, in the Latin, French, English, High- and Low-German Languages: Together with a Brief Historical Narrative in Prose for Each Image. At Amsterdam, Published by Nicolaus Visscher. Circa 1700.
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A beautiful and highly desirable edition with text in Latin, French, English, German, and Dutch, essentially forming a Polyglot edition, here with a large quantity of finely engraved illustrations.
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Provenance:
Bookplate of Mr. John Salmon.
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Size: 214 x 258 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[(1), *2-*4, 2*1-2*3, A1-S4, 1ff., A1-2G4, 2H2, 1ff., A1-X4, Y1, (2)].
Full spotted brown calf with a red tooled label in a compartment to the spine between raised bands, other compartments with decorative gilt. Binding lightly rubbed and scuffed with some repairs, rebacked, boards reattached. Shelf and edge wear. Page edges dulled. Bookplate attached to front pastedown. Edge toning to endpapers. Text block fairly clean with light toning, occasional foxing and marks, some ink stains, and many repairs. Some tears. Title leaf laid down. A nice copy of this beautiful edition.
[OCLC 180714280].
