Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BIBLE IN DUTCH.) Biblia Sacra; dat is, De Geheele Heylige Schrifture. Over 1200 column-width text woodcuts by Christoffel van Sichem; woodcut head- and tailpieces and historiated initials throughout. [4], 1270; 468, [6] pages, including engraved additional title. Mostly printed in black letter. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 353x218 mm, contemporary calf over wooden boards, diced and blind-tooled to panel design with arabesque centerpiece on covers, brass cornerpieces, catches and clasps, raised bands worn, spine ends damaged, stain on front cover; occasional browning, light marginal dampstaining at end, endpapers darkened and partly discolored. 19th-century armorial bookplate of the Reverend George Bethune. (Antwerp: Pieter Jacopsz. Paets, 1657)

Additional Details

New illustrated edition of the 1599 revision of the Louvain Bible, the standard Dutch Catholic version. Darlow & Moule 3314.