BIBLE, Dutch. Den Bibel, inhoudende het oude ende nieuwe Testament, met grooter neersticheyt ouerghesteldt ende ghecorrigeert na dat opiecht Latijnsch exemplaer. Antwerp: Jans de Laet, 1556.
2 parts in one, 2o (320 x 196mm). Title printed in red and black with a woodcut historiated border made up of 10 blocks, 192 woodcut illustrations of varying sizes in the text by Hans Holbein the younger. (Title cut round and remargined with 2 holes which affect border and text repaired, marginal repairs in the next 12 leaves, A1 torn and repaired, marginal repairs in the last 12 leaves, first quire and second quire I from smaller copies, some browning and staining.) 17th-century vellum (rebacked with modern morocco and repaired where necessary).
Second edition of the Van Winghe Bible, first published in 1548. Not in Adams or Darlow and Moule.
BIBLE, Dutch. Den Bibel, inhoudende het oude ende nieuwe Testament, met grooter neersticheyt ouerghesteldt ende ghecorrigeert na dat opiecht Latijnsch exemplaer. Antwerp: Jans de Laet, 1556.
2 parts in one, 2o (320 x 196mm). Title printed in red and black with a woodcut historiated border made up of 10 blocks, 192 woodcut illustrations of varying sizes in the text by Hans Holbein the younger. (Title cut round and remargined with 2 holes which affect border and text repaired, marginal repairs in the next 12 leaves, A1 torn and repaired, marginal repairs in the last 12 leaves, first quire and second quire I from smaller copies, some browning and staining.) 17th-century vellum (rebacked with modern morocco and repaired where necessary).
Second edition of the Van Winghe Bible, first published in 1548. Not in Adams or Darlow and Moule.
