Live auction - Lot 764

Biblia Sacra dat is de geheele Heylighe Schrifture bedeylt int Oudt ende Nieu Testament. Van nieus met groote neersticheyt oversien, ende naer den lesten Roomschen text verbetert door sommighe Doctoren inder Heyligher Godtheyt in de vermaerde Universiteyt van Loven.

Subject: [Dutch - Antwerp]

€ 900 / 1.100

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Lot description

Antwerp, D. Vervliet & H. Swingen for J. Moretus, 1599

Folio: [520] ff. (sl. toned, some marginal soiling, title and final f. underlaid, sm. loss at title border, holes in mod. flyleaf, ink stain on 3Q4r).

Contemp. blind-decorated calf over wood, covers with ornamental roll-stamps, spine with 4 raised bands, metal clasps and catches, numerous fore-edge tabs (expertly rebacked and repaired, mod. endpapers). Good copy.

First edition of the Catholic "Moerentorf" Bible. Engraved title. 90 woodcuts. Printed in 2 col., in gothic type.
Ref. Bibles Paris 1182. - BT 5207. - Imhof (Moretus) B-36. - Biblia Sacra 1599.B.dut.JM1.b (ext. descr.). - Darlow/Moule 3300. - Poortman I:131-133. - STCV 12912249. - Not in Adams.
*** Prov. Libr. stamp.