Live auction - Lot 900

[Bible - Dutch]

Biblia dat is, De gantsche Heylige Schrift, grondelick ende trouwelick verduydtschet [...] [trsl. G. van Wingen].

Delft, A. Hendricksz, 1579

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Folio: [20]-201 (= 202)-78-72-[1-1 bl.]-92 ff. (toned and soiled, marginally dampstained and thumbed, blank bottom corner of part-title NT torn off, single wormholes in blank bottom of final quires).

Old blind-stamped calf over wood, edges bevelled inside, gilt spine on 4 raised bands, decorative endpapers (rebacked, worn covers pasted on, clasps and catches gone). Good copy.

Delft folio ed. of a Dutch Protestant Bible translation 1st publ. Emden 1562. It is called the “Deux-Aes” trsl., after a famous marginal note to the Book of Nehemia 3:5 (here on f. 151r). Woodcut mark on title and part-titles. Printed in gothic type in 2 columns. Ref. Typ. Bat. 573. - STCN 054893283. - Pettegree NB 3811. - STC Dutch (BL) 23. - Cp. Bibles Paris 1178 (1581 Delft 8vo ed.). - Not in Adams, BnF, Darlow/Moule. Prov. Old initials"MDL" on title.

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Lot 900

Biblia dat is, De gantsche Heylige Schrift, grondelick ende trouwelick verduydtschet [...] [trsl. G. van Wingen].

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