De kleine print-bybel, waar in door verscheide afbeeldingen een meenigte van Bybelsche spreuken verklaart werden. Tot vermaak der jeugd [...]. Uit de Hoogduitsche in de Hollandsche taal overgezet.

8vo: [12 incl. front.] pp., 150 pl.-[24] pp. (childlike scribbling on front pastedown and flyleaf, part of margin pl. 57 gone).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine (some traces of ink).

Later Dutch trsl. (1st 1720) of "Courieuse, oder so-genannte Kleine Bilder-Bibel" (Hamburg 1704). It is an adaptation by G.P. Hondius (1666-1740) of M. Mattspergers (1627-1698) "Geistliche Herzens-Einbildungen". "One of the most popular picture books for children of the 18th c., a hieroglyphic bible, supposed to serve a great variety of educational purposes [...]" (Children's world). Engr. ill.: allegorical title and 150 full-page emblematical pl. (with Dutch captions) illustrating Psalms, Proverbs, etc. Engr. vign. on title (ox drawing a plough).
Ref. Children's world of learning 1332. - Buijnsters 956. - Poortman IIa p. 166. - STCN.
Prov. Geelkerken, 1819 (ms. entry on front flyleaf).