Online auction - Lot 346

[Bible commentary]

Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis cum selectis annotationibus [...] J.B. Duhamel.

Leuven, M. van Overbeke, 1740


Starting bid: € 100

€ 120 / 150

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Lot description

2 vol., folio: [24]-xxxi-[1]-520, 506-44 pp. (world map missing; vol. I: sm. tear in title; vol. II: (mostly marginal) damp stain at top edge, quires 3S and 3T inversed).

19th-c. black half shagreen (a few sm. def.), gilt titled spines with 5 raised bands, decor. endpapers. Good copy.

Vulgate Bible with annotations by the Leuven theologian Duhamel (1624-1706). Edition dedicated to Thomas Philip, archbishop of Mechelen with his beautiful portrait engraved by Tanjé after A.J. Smeyers and armorial headpiece in part I. Engr. ill.: 1 engr. folding pl. by G. Duvivier depicting 16 scenes from the Bible and 3 folding maps (Middle East and 2x Holy Land (1 with coloured pencil marks); 2 signed Sanson). Titles in red and black.
Ref. Bibles Paris 1124. - STCV. - Not in Darlow/Moule.

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Lot 346

Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis cum selectis annotationibus [...] J.B. Duhamel.

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