Biblia, ad vetustissima exemplaria castigata [...].

8vo: [8]-426-[6] ff. (light dampstains, occasional ink stains and underlinings, marginal wormhole in ff. 191-192).

18th-c. calf, gilt decorated spine on raised bands, red edges (partly rubbed, small def., turn-ins lacking).

Vulgate edited by Johannes Hentenius (1499-1566), Dominican theologian and professor at the University of Leuven. Repr. from the Leuven edition of 1547 by B. Gravius. Title within an historiated woodcut border (Paradise). Printed in italics. Ref. BT 450. - STC Dutch 22. - Pettegree NB 3802. - Bibles Paris 929. - Adams B-1081. Prov. Libr. stamps. - Prize book awarded to Joannes Josephus Vaes from Diest (dated 25 August 1808).