Sale 2563 - Lot 13
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Sale 2563 - Lot 13
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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.
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.