BIBLICAL ENGRAVINGS -- Martin DE VOS (1531-1603) and other illustrators. An album of 17th-century biblical prints, comprising:
BIBLICAL ENGRAVINGS -- Martin DE VOS (1531-1603) and other illustrators. An album of 17th-century biblical prints, comprising:

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BIBLICAL ENGRAVINGS -- Martin DE VOS (1531-1603) and other illustrators. An album of 17th-century biblical prints, comprising:

(a) A part series of 46 engravings of New Testament scenes by J. and C. Galle, A. and J. Collaert, and J. de Bye after Martin de Vos, numbered 2-13, 16-18, 20-51, extracted from [?] Vos's Vita, passio e resurrectio Iesu Christi [Antwerp: c. 1640], 190 x 247mm. (One plate creased, another creased and holed, on guards.)
(b) A series of 14 plates portraying Christ and the Apostles, each with repeated border of trophies-of-war, by Martinus vanden Enden after Gerard Segers, 265 x 173mm. (Cropped with some loss to borders, on guards.)
(c) Acta Apostolorum ... a Martino Hemskerchio ... et Iohanne Stradano ... Ioannes Galleus edidit. Antwerp: [n.d.]. Engraved title and 41 plates partly re-engraved by J. Galle after Heemskerck and Stradano, 205 x 275mm. (The plates double-mounted, one plate damaged where extended at margin.)
(d) GALLE, Philipp. Menses XII anni solaris a Philippo Gallaeo ex veteribus Scriptoribus, collecti, & editi, a Cornelio Kiliano ... carmine illustrata. Antwerp: [n.d.]. Engraved title and 12 plates by Adrian Collaert and J. Galle after Iodocus de Momper, 204 x 270mm. (Some old stains, some plates cropped at borders.)
(e) A series of 84 engraved plates by P. B. Bruttats and others after various artists including J. C. de Cock, and 'Crispin' or 'Crispine' [? van de Pass], many unsigned, including scenes from both the Old and New Testament, 249 x 190mm. (Occasional creasing, on guards.)

Oblong 4, 19th-century red morocco gilt, spine lettered 'Gravures de la Bible'. Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return.

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