BIBLE, Latin. Bibla Sacra, quid in hac editione a theologis Lovaniensibus praestitum sit, eorum praefatio indicat. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1583. Folio, 420 x 282 mm. (16½ x 11 1/8 in.), 17th or 18th-century calf over wooden boards, rebacked, corners and board edges restored, edges gilt and gauffred, lacking last leaf blank, frontispiece soiled and with fore-edge frayed, rust hole to D2 and small hole to M1 each catching 2 letters, small repaired tear to D3, a few small marginal tears. Voet's Variant B, without the 2-leaf dedication to Cardinal Albert (inserted in only a few copies), double column, with N8 blank, without K6 blank at end of the Notationes; engraved title by Abraham de Bruyn after Crispin van den Broeck, 3 engraved double-page maps including a double hemisphere world map (Shirley 125) and maps of Israel and Canaan, 2 double-page engraved plates (plan and view of the Temple of Jerusalem), 7 full-page engravings and 81 smaller engravings in the text, a few repeated, by Jan Wiericx, Jan de Sadeler, and A. de Bruyn after Crispin van den Broeck and Peter van der Borcht, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Adams B-1089; Brunet I, 877; Darlow & Moule 6173 note; Voet 690."This in-folio Bible is one of the most impressive and beautiful editions of the Plantin Press. It is the result of a rather curious publishing-adventure: realized with the financial help of the Spanish King at a moment when Plantin was considered by many to be a follower of the rebels, and... lived in rebel-held country and printed many ordinances and decrees decrying Philip II and his partisans" (Voet, p. 367). The 5 double-page and 7 full-page engravings were originally published in the Polyglot Bible (1571), and 40 of the smaller engravings were also used in the 4to edition of Arias Montanus, Humanae Salutis Monumenta, c. 1583.Provenance: "A. C. de Callant Abbas Stae Gertrudis," 18th-century ownership inscription on title.

BIBLE, Latin. Bibla Sacra, quid in hac editione a theologis Lovaniensibus praestitum sit, eorum praefatio indicat. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1583. Folio, 420 x 282 mm. (16½ x 11 1/8 in.), 17th or 18th-century calf over wooden boards, rebacked, corners and board edges restored, edges gilt and gauffred, lacking last leaf blank, frontispiece soiled and with fore-edge frayed, rust hole to D2 and small hole to M1 each catching 2 letters, small repaired tear to D3, a few small marginal tears. Voet's Variant B, without the 2-leaf dedication to Cardinal Albert (inserted in only a few copies), double column, with N8 blank, without K6 blank at end of the Notationes; engraved title by Abraham de Bruyn after Crispin van den Broeck, 3 engraved double-page maps including a double hemisphere world map (Shirley 125) and maps of Israel and Canaan, 2 double-page engraved plates (plan and view of the Temple of Jerusalem), 7 full-page engravings and 81 smaller engravings in the text, a few repeated, by Jan Wiericx, Jan de Sadeler, and A. de Bruyn after Crispin van den Broeck and Peter van der Borcht, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Adams B-1089; Brunet I, 877; Darlow & Moule 6173 note; Voet 690. "This in-folio Bible is one of the most impressive and beautiful editions of the Plantin Press. It is the result of a rather curious publishing-adventure: realized with the financial help of the Spanish King at a moment when Plantin was considered by many to be a follower of the rebels, and... lived in rebel-held country and printed many ordinances and decrees decrying Philip II and his partisans" (Voet, p. 367). The 5 double-page and 7 full-page engravings were originally published in the Polyglot Bible (1571), and 40 of the smaller engravings were also used in the 4to edition of Arias Montanus, Humanae Salutis Monumenta, c. 1583. Provenance: "A. C. de Callant Abbas Stae Gertrudis," 18th-century ownership inscription on title.

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BIBLE, Latin. Bibla Sacra, quid in hac editione a theologis Lovaniensibus praestitum sit, eorum praefatio indicat. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1583. Folio, 420 x 282 mm. (16½ x 11 1/8 in.), 17th or 18th-century calf over wooden boards, rebacked, corners and board edges restored, edges gilt and gauffred, lacking last leaf blank, frontispiece soiled and with fore-edge frayed, rust hole to D2 and small hole to M1 each catching 2 letters, small repaired tear to D3, a few small marginal tears. Voet's Variant B, without the 2-leaf dedication to Cardinal Albert (inserted in only a few copies), double column, with N8 blank, without K6 blank at end of the Notationes; engraved title by Abraham de Bruyn after Crispin van den Broeck, 3 engraved double-page maps including a double hemisphere world map (Shirley 125) and maps of Israel and Canaan, 2 double-page engraved plates (plan and view of the Temple of Jerusalem), 7 full-page engravings and 81 smaller engravings in the text, a few repeated, by Jan Wiericx, Jan de Sadeler, and A. de Bruyn after Crispin van den Broeck and Peter van der Borcht, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Adams B-1089; Brunet I, 877; Darlow & Moule 6173 note; Voet 690.

"This in-folio Bible is one of the most impressive and beautiful editions of the Plantin Press. It is the result of a rather curious publishing-adventure: realized with the financial help of the Spanish King at a moment when Plantin was considered by many to be a follower of the rebels, and... lived in rebel-held country and printed many ordinances and decrees decrying Philip II and his partisans" (Voet, p. 367). The 5 double-page and 7 full-page engravings were originally published in the Polyglot Bible (1571), and 40 of the smaller engravings were also used in the 4to edition of Arias Montanus, Humanae Salutis Monumenta, c. 1583.

Provenance: "A. C. de Callant Abbas Stae Gertrudis," 18th-century ownership inscription on title.