Religion & Devotion

[BIBLE - DUTCH - KEUR]. Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.
Dordrecht, Jacob and Pieter Keur; Amsterdam, Pieter Rotterdam and Pieter Rotterdam the younger (colophon: printed by Jacob and Pieter Keur, Dordrecht), 1714 (New Testament without Pieter Rotterdam the younger, 1713). 3 parts in 2 volumes. Large folio (42.5×27.5 cm). With engraved general title-page, series of 6 engraved double-page folding maps by Daniël Stoopendaal (his larger set), a complete set of 184 full-page and 28 double-page engraved illustration plates by various artists, including A. de Blois, J. van Vianen and J. Mulder, after G. Hoet, B. Picart, A. Houbraken and others. Gold-tooled sprinkled calf (1738?). [20], 302; [2], 134, [12], 164, [2], 66 ll. Full description

[BIBLE – DUTCH - KEUR]. Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.
Dordrecht, Jacob and Pieter Keur; Amsterdam, Pieter Rotterdam and Pieter Rotterdam the younger (colophon: printed by Jacob and Pieter Keur, Dordrecht), 1714 (New Testament without Pieter Rotterdam the younger, 1713). 3 parts in 1 volume. Large folio (42.5 x 27.5 cm). With engraved general title-page, letterpress title-pages for the New Testament and Apocrypha (and half-title for the Prophets), a series of 6 engraved double-page folding maps by Daniël Stoopendaal (his larger set) and a series of 24 (of 25) engrave plates, with 6 engraved Biblical scenes each, by Dirk Jonkman. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass clasps, anchor and catch plates, and corner pieces. Full description

[BIBLE - ARABIC - OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT]. Kitab Al-Muqaddas al-Mushtamil 'ala Kutub al-'Ahd al-'Atiq wal 'Ahd al-Jadid [The Holy Book, included the books of the Old Testament found in the original Hebrew of our Lord Jesus Christ and also the Book of the New Testament].
London, William Watts, 1855. 8vo (22 x 14 cm).
Original elaborately embossed brown calf with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red edges. [1], [1 blank], [2], 645; 407; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 352 pp. Full description

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia, dat is, de gantsche heylige schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.
Leiden, widow and heirs of Johannes Elzevier, 1663. 3 volumes bound as 2, with the prints and maps bound in. Large folio (44.5 x 28 cm). The Elzevier Bible with an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 letterpress title-pages (the general title-page in red and black, the others for the New Testament and Apocrypha). Picart's wholly engraved print-Bible with an allegorical frontispiece, a half-title and 209 finely engraved Bible scenes (29 double-page) by Gerard Hoet, Bernard Picart, etc. Further with a series of 6 double-page engraved plates, namely 5 maps plus a plan of Jerusalem, all by Nicolaas I Visscher. Below the privilege from the city of Leiden, the city secretarys clerk Jacob vander Werve has authenticated the book by stamping the Leiden coat of arms and signing his name below it. Richly gold-tooled black goatskin morocco (ca. 1725) over bevelled wooden boards, bound and decorated by the so-called STAG BINDERY, Rotterdam. From the collection of Hendrik Adriaan or Hendricus Hadrianus vander Marck (ca. 1667-1726). [22], “468” [= 470]; [13], [1 blank], “167” [= 168]; [4], 77, [1 blank] ll. plus the print-Bible and maps. Full description

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia, dat is de gantsche Heylige Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.
Including: De boecken genaemt apocryphe ...
Leiden, widow and heirs of Johannes Elzevier, 1663. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large folio (44.5 x 28 cm). With 3 letterpress title-pages (the first in red and black, and each with the same Elzevier woodcut tree device with "non solus"), a complete series of 6 double-page engraved maps (the Nicolaes Visscher maps, 5 published ca. 1657 and including the world map added ca. 1663), without the engraved title-page (as usual). Further with numerous woodcut initials and tailpieces. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled red morocco over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on 8 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with grand silver fittings (with the hallmarks of an unknown silversmith) dated on the inside of one of the clasps "1665", gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins. Further with gilt, painted, and elaborately gauffered and decorated edges; the fore edge shows the coat-of-arms of Jeremias de Bont with some floral decorations, these floral decorations can also be found on the top and bottom edges. The boards show a very intricate gold-tooled symmetric design of ribbons with small geometric stamps and with ornamental curling stamps - better known as "petit fers" - within the different parts of the bigger pattern. The binding contains 4 ornamental corner pieces on each board and two catch plates (front board) and two hinge plates (back board) connected by two decorated massive silver clasps, engraved on the inside "Ieremias de Bont (top) and "1665" (bottom). [22], "368" [= 370]; [13], "167" [= 168]; [2], 77 ll. Full description

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia. Dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonycke boeken des Oude en des Nieuwen Testaments ...
Amsterdam, Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrik and Dirk Boom, 1676.
With:
(2) [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - DUTCH]. Het Nieuwe Testament ...
Amsterdam, for Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1677.
(3) [PSALMBOOK - DUTCH]. De CL Psalmen des propheten Davids ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1676. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo (15.3 x 9.3 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved general title page, the woodcut coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam on the verso of the title page, a small woodcut decorated initial , and a woodcut floral tailpiece. Ad 2 with a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, the woodcut coat of arms below the "acte van consent" on the verso of the title page, a woodcut headpiece and tailpiece, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3 with a woodcut vignette on the title page, all psalms are accompanied by musical notation. Late 18th- or early 19th-century brown sheepskin with late 17th-century silver fittings, marbled endpapers, and gilt edges. 338; [2], "109" [= 107], [1 blank]; [98] ll. Full description

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia. Dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture ...
Dordrecht, Jacob & Pieter Keur; Amsterdam, Pieter Rotterdam and Pieter Rotterdam jr., 1714. Including:
- Het Nieuwe Testament ...
Dordrecht, Hendrik, Jacob, & Pieter Keur; Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick and Pieter Rotterdam, 1702.
- Apocryphe ...
Dordrecht, Hendrik, Jacob, & Pieter Keur; Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick and Pieter Rotterdam, 1702.
With: (2) BASNAGE, Jacob and A. 't Groot waerelds tafereel, waar in alle heilige en waereldsche geschiedenissen en veranderingen zedert de schepping des waerelds, tot het uiteinde van de openbaring van Johannes, door konst tafereelen historieel en sinbeeldig worden afgemaalt ...
Amsterdam, Jacob Lindenberg, 1715.2 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. Large folio (46.5 x ca. 28 cm). With 3 hand-coloured engraved titles, including 1 heightened with gold, 6 hand-coloured and heightened with gold double-page maps by Daniel Stoopendaal, a full-page hand-coloured engraved portrait at the start of the work, 4 hand-coloured headpieces (3 engraved, 1 woodcut), and 3 hand-coloured engraved tailpieces. Ad 2 with 84 full-page engraved plates (55 plates with 2 illustrations each and 29 plates with one illustration and a detailed engraved vignette), a hand-coloured engraved portrait of Basnage, a double-page view of the temple in Jerusalem by Romeyn de Hooghe, and a large hand-coloured engraved vignette on the typographical title page. Further with letterpress title pages for the New Testament and Apocrypha (both dated 1702), and a half-title page for the Prophets, woodcut head- and tailpieces, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled brown leather with brass cornerpieces and clasps, and with the title lettered in gold on the spine, bound by the most important 18th-century Amsterdam binderies: the Double Drawer Handle Bindery (see Storm van Leeuwen I, pp. 228-284). [20], 302, [2], 134, [12], 164, [2], 66; 168, 19, 21-92, 66 pp. Full description

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Bybel, dat is, de gansche H. Schrift, vervattende alle de kanonyke boeken des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments.
Gorinchem, Nicolas Goetzee, 1748. 2 volumes. Large folio. With engraved allegorical frontispiece by J. Punt after J. de Wit, large engraved vignette by J. Punt on title, 12 double-page folding engraved maps by W.A. Bachine, including a plan of Jerusalem, and 61 double-page engraved plates by Jan Luyken, including 2 with four half-page illustrations to one plate, and extra mounted on endpapers of both volumes 8 half-page engraved bible-illustrations by G. de Jode, all richly coloured by hand. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, spines ribbed and richly gilt in a fine light flower design, with broad richly ornamental gilt borders and elegant gilt inner-panel with large gilt flowers at the four corners and large flowered gilt central ornaments. [12], 19, [3], 342, [2], 151; [4], 12, 172, [4], 77 ll. Full description

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia dat is de gantsche H. Schrift vervattende alle canonyke boeken des ouden en Nieuwen Testaments.
Including: Het nieuwe Testament. And: De CL. Psalmen des propheten Davids.
Amsterdam, Otto van Grafhorst and Dirk onder de Linden, 1752. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved title-page (pasted on the "Acte van Consent en Authorisatie"), 42 engraved plates and diamond-head music for the psalms. With only the undated engraved general title-page and no separate title-page for the Old Testament, but with separate title-pages for the New Testament and the psalms.
Contemporary red morocco, with richly gold-tooled sides and spine, and gilt edges. [3] ll., 852; [234] pp. Full description

[BIBLE - OLD TESTAMENT - DUTCH]. Biblia, dat is de gantsche Heylige Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonycke boecken des ouden ende des nieuwen testaments. ...Amsterdam, J. Brandt and son, Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé and sons, 1884.
With: (2) [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - DUTCH]. Het Nieuwe Testament, ofte alle boecken des nieuwen verbonts onses heeren Jesu Christi. ...Amsterdam, J. Brandt and son, Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé and sons, 1870.
(3) [PSALMBOOK - DUTCH]. Het boek der psalmen, nevens de gezangen bij de Hervormde Kerk van Nederland in gebruik. ... Amsterdam, J. Brandt and son, Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé and sons), 1870. With the sheet music for the psalms.
With letterpress-printed music notes for the psalms. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 20th-century so-called sharkskin with several elaborate silver-plated fittings, (large cornerpieces on both sides, two cord rings on the head intended to secure a carrying cord or chain, two large clasps: one inscribed "J.R.M." and the other dated "1932", catch-plates), gilt and gauffered edges. [1], 416; 126; 132 ff. Full description