Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 13,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Bible, Illustrated.
Theatrum Biblicum. Hoc est Historiae Sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti Tabulis Aeneis Expressae.

[Holland]: Nicolaum Joannes Piscatorem [Visscher], 1650.

Five oblong folio volumes, engraved and illustrated throughout, containing separate title pages for the Historiae Sacrae, Acta Apostolorum, XII Fidei Apostolicae Symbola, and Visiones Apocalypticae Exhibitae, and approximately 460 full-paged engravings by and after Crispin, Haedeler, Petrus de Jode, Martin Heemskerck, Herman Muller, Joannes Breugel, Oort, and Collaert, and others almost all engraved by Visscher; a compendium of works, bound with dozens of period-era blank leaves interspersed in an indiscernible pattern; some plates mounted, some repaired, the majority in good shape; five volumes uniformly bound in period full parchment over boards, stained black, later endleaves, each 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (5)

See Brunet V: 773 and Graesse VII: 110.