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~ Illustrated by Jan Luyken ~
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Afbeeldingen der merkwaardigste geschiedenissen van het Oude
en Nieuwe Testament
. In het koper geëtst door (...)
Jan Luiken
, en met nieuwe en leerzame
beschryvingen opgeheldert. Amsterdam, Covens & Mortier, 1729, large folio, somewhat later
quarter calf (corners rubbed, bumped), gilt flat orn. spine (joints splitting, def. at head & tail, heav.
rubbed), [10]-76, [2]-44 pp., 15-[1] ff. (pl. 3 lacking; somewhat spotting). Large paper copy, with
the double-page pl. mounted on stubs.
Cfr. ill.
€
400/600
Dutch trsl. of “Icones biblicae Veteris et N. Testamenti”. Beautiful engr. illustr. by
Jan
Luyken
:
double-page frontisp
., title-vign. by B. Picart (repeated in part II),
5 double-page maps
(i.a.
“Generale waereld kaart”, “Heylige land verdeeld inde twaalf stammen Israels”),
60 double-page
pl.
with engr. Dutch and French captions (of 61, lacking n. 3, numb. 1-61) representing various,
often spectacular, biblical scenes (i.a. “Adam geeft aan alle de dieren naamen”, “De toorn van
Babel”, “Sodom door ‘t vuur vergaan”, “De ontmoeting van Jacob en Esau”, “De Verryzenis
van Lazarus”) and
30 smaller ills in text
. Mod. bookpl. Hubert Dupond.
Ref.
STCN. Klaversma &
Hannema 159-164. BL. Not in Bn-Opale plus.
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MICHAELIS, Johann Heinrich
- ‘Esrim ve-arba’ Sifre ha-Kodesh
sive Biblia Hebraica, ex aliquot manuscriptis (...). Halle/Saale, Orphanotropheum, 1720, 8vo, old
vellum, marbled endpapers, [8]-32 pp., 332-[1] ff., 16 pp., ff. 334-402, 12 pp., ff. 403-464, 4 pp., ff.
465-848 incl. frontisp. (a few leaves sl. foxed, occ. spotting). Good condition.
€
200/300
First and only ed.
of Michaelis’ critical text of the Hebrew Bible, with such extensive foot and
shoulder notes (giving both criticism and variant readings) that on some pages they occupy four
or five times as much space as the Bible text itself. Darlow & Moule calls it “
the first attempt
at a critical edition
”. Michaelis (1668-1738), prof. of oriental languages and theology at Halle,
compared 5 manuscripts and 19 printed ed. With
engr. frontisp.
(5 biblical figures around a Bible
i.a. King David). Title in red & black with engr. publ. mark. Without the 2-leaf errata present in
some copies. Bookpl. Rochester Theological Seminary.
Ref.
Darlow & Moule 5144. Steinschneider
834.
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