Histoire du vieux et du nouveau testament, enrichie de plus de quatre cens figures en taille-douce, &c.

Antwerp, P. Mortier, 1700

€ 300 / 400

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Lot description

2 vol., folio: [16 incl. engr. title]-282-[8], [24]-154-[12]-20 pp. (tear in half title of 1st vol. underl., missing the world map).

Mod. wine red blind-st. leather, spines with raised bands.

First edition of the famous Mortier Bible. Ill. with 2 front. (one signed by Gouwen after O. Elliger and one by D. vander Plaes), 2 title-vign., 2 initials, 3 headpieces, 29 endpieces, 4 (of 5) folding maps and 214 (141, 73) plates.
Ref. STCN. - Cohen 268. - Sander 139.