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BIBLES -- BIBLIA NEERLANDICA -- DEN BIBEL. Tgeheele Oude ende Nieuvve Testame[n]t met grooter naersticheyt nade[n] Latijnsche[n] text gecorrigeert. (…) Met schoonen Figueren ghedruckt ende naerstelijck weder oversien. Item oock een schoone zeer profitelicke Tafel (…) niet ghedruct gheweest. (Antwerp, W. Vorsterman, 1533-34). 3 parts in 1 vol. (14), 196; 168; 102 lvs. W. letterpress ti. to O and NT within border consisting of 4 woodcut illustr. (the one for the NT slightly deviant), 1 fold. woodcut map of the Holy Land (rep. in the middle but a strip of 2 cm lacking), a calendar printed in red & black on 3 pp., c. 250 woodcuts of uneven size in text, partly by Jan Swart, num. decorated woodcut initials and ornaments, and printer's device of two-headed eagle on verso of final page, completely rubricated in red. Fol. Old cf. w. raised bands & dec. gilt backs. (Sides renewed, bind. skilfully restored, new endpapers, lower blank margin ti-p. renewed, some scribbling on v° ti-p., some stains in places, margins a bit thumbed/soiled in places, a bit browned).

Rare, complete copy of the 3rd edition of the Vorsterman Bible (first 1528), richly illustrated with an abundancy of fine woodcuts, including the map of the Holy Land after Lucas Cranach. The text follows the Liesvelt Bible, was read by protestants and catholics alike and became a large success. One of the rarest 16th c. bibles. - Nijhoff-Kronenberg 405; Le Long 579; Poortman I, pp. 92-94; Poortman & Augusteijn, Kaarten in bijbels, pp. 63-65.

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