Live auction - Lot 784
[Bible illustrations - Antwerp imprint]
Novum Testamentum illustratum insignium rerum simulacris [...].
Antwerp, J. Richard, 1542
€ 500 / 700
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Lot description
16mo: 263 (= 261)-[3]-165-[23] ff. (some minor soiling and traces of use, top margin of some ff. gnawed at, just touching a few letters, single wormhole in final quires, bottom corner f. 34 torn off with sm. loss, sm. hole in f. 61).
Cont. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink, red edges (soiled, def. to front yapp edge and lower cover). Good copy.
Very rare Antwerp illustrated New Testament in pocket edition. 138 woodcuts in text (incl. repeats). Woodcut on title. Woodcut mark at the end. Printed within ruled border. Ref. BT 506. - Pettegree NB 4579. - STC Dutch (BL) 30. - Not in Adams, Bibles Paris, Darlow/Moule. Prov. Old ownership and presentation inscriptions. - Bookpl. removed.