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Lot 1398

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De kleine Print-Bijbel. Waar in door verscheide afbeeldingen en meenigte van Bybelsche spreuken verklaart werden. Tot vermaak der jeugd [...]. Uit de Hoogduitsche in de Hollandsche taal overgezet.

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Amsterdam, G. Bouman, 1730

8vo: [14 pp. incl. engr. title]-150 engr. pl.-[24] pp. (last 2 engr. folia loose, bookblock sl. unsteady, half title sl. def., some dampstaining in the begin.).

Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (used and def.).

Later Dutch trsl. (1st ed. 1720) of "Courieuse, oder so-genannte Kleine Bilder-Bibel" (Hamburg 1704), an adaptation by G.P. Hondius (1666-1740) of M. Mattsperger (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 [...] in a playful way to memorize the biblical proverbs and sayings [...] the numerous illustrations used in the pictorial puzzles also gave them lots of information on all sorts of subjects" (Children's world). Ill. with an engr. title and 150 full-page engr. emblematical pl. (with Dutch captions) illustrating Psalms, Proverbs, etc.
Ref. STCN. - Children's world of learning 1332.
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De kleine Print-Bijbel. Waar in door verscheide afbeeldingen en meenigte van Bybelsche spreuken verklaart werden. Tot vermaak der jeugd [...]. Uit de Hoogduitsche in de Hollandsche taal overgezet.

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