- Lacks the 2 frontisp. First 5 lvs. loose; endpapers dam.; partly sl. stained in upper blank margin; occas. sl. foxed and soiled.
= On this printbible of Basnage and Alewyn, which went through 10 editions between 1705 and 1721, in extenso Poortman II, p.109-120. Landwehr, R. de H. as book ill. 100; Hollstein IX, 2; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 404; Klaversma/ Hannema 129.
- Without the Old Testament. Lacks the 5 maps. Title-p. w. text "Tweede deel" cut out; a few lvs. repaired w. paper on verso; occas. sl. fingersoiled/ waterst. Top of spine chipped; extremities sl. worn.
= The large Mortier-bible. Poortman II, p.98-105; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 351; Klaversma/ Hannema 187.
- Lacks 1 ill. Prelim. lvs. reattached; margins of some lvs. strengthened w. japanese; occas. sl. (thumb)soiled/ stained (mostly in margins); 2 ills. w. sm. hole. Nevertheless a good copy.
= Rare. Poortman II, 30, 2a. Poortman calls for 233 plates in the first edition of 1648, which appeared in sm. obl. 4to; for the second edition 13 plates by P. HOLSTEYN were added. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.
- Contents fine, w. only a few wormholes in outer blank margins. Corners showing; spine worn; some rubbed spots.
= This second edition similar to the first edition of 1708, but enlarged with 2 pages of accompanying text to every print and with 5 engraved maps and 29 oval (and 1 not oval) vignettes of the "Grooten Bybel" of Mortier (1700). One of the most monumental works by Jan Luiken. Klaversma/ Hannema 160/ 161; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 429, p.666; Poortman II, p.131. On the worldmap by I. van Huchtenburg and with the address of Covens and Mortier, Shirley 622: "A further world map by Pierre Mortier has the title in French and Dutch and is said to be from a biblical work so far unidentified. Across the top of the map are five circles showing Night and Day, the Flood, the phases of the moon, and the west and east hemispheres."
- Second work lacks 2p. New endpapers; inner margin of first textp. strengthened w. paper; 2 plates repaired w. paper on verso; 1 plate torn on fold; 1 textp. repaired w. paper w. loss of some words; occas. sl. (water)stained. Vellum sl. soiled/ stained.
= Rare children's bible with mnemotechnics, orig. German ed. publ. Leyden, F. Lopes, 1681. Landwehr, R. de H. as book ill. 57; Poortman II, p.155: "Het ideaal van de 18de eeuw was de kinderen zoveel mogelijk thuis te laten geraken in de bijbel door middel van het memoriseren. Een typisch voorbeeld hiervan is het boekje van Ds. Johannes Müller uit Leiden (...) Van elk hoofdstuk van elk evangelie en eveneens van het Boek Openbaringen heeft hij prentjes laten maken waarop de voornaamste onderwerpen van dat hoofdstuk uitgebeeld worden. (...) Na de twee of drie bladzijden met prentjes volgt een gortdroge beschrijving, die als het ware een uittreksel van het bij de prentjes behorende bijbelgedeelte is."
- Partly sl. yellowed. Bindings w. minor imperfections; spine of vol. 4 sl. wormholed; joints splitting.
- Occas. sl. yellowed; vol. 3 bookblock shaken. Bindings w. various defects (sl. worn/ some dam. spots etc.).
- Spine-ends restored; embossing on backcover almost entirely worn off. Lacks contents.
- Pages cut short in fore-edge w. loss of text of glosses throughout. The vulnerable binding with the inevitable sl. wear; spine-ends sl. dam.; lacks larger part of clasps and catches.
= Rare 17th cent. embroidered bookbinding. Cf. Davenport, p.105f and plate 43. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.
- Pastedowns partly detached. A few trifle rubbed spots.
- One map loose; bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Velvet completely worn away (sm. remnants only visible at foot of spine) and underlying cl. w. damaged spots; joint split. The goldwork in splendid condition, without any significant wear.
= A remarkably fine example of luxurious eighteenth century gold bookdecoration by the Amsterdam(?) goldsmith Johannes van Leuven (1737-1782), with his hallmark and yearmark 1761. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.
- Silver oxidized; some small parts loosening.
= A rare example of a remarkable delicate kind of binding with very refined silverwork decoration. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.
- Lacks (2?) textlvs. at the end; first and last few lvs. worn/ frayed in fore-edge margin, (sl.) affecting text; modern endpapers. Binding oxidized; backstrip worn (from polishing?).
= Nice binding, without hallmarks. The text on the central medallions reading "Aus wahrer Lieb kombt dieser Trieb" (frontcover) and "Nur dise bahn führt Himmel an" (backcover); the images i.a. showing Christian symbols. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Chafed and rubbed; upper joint splitting at spine-ends.
= The catches with an unidentified hall mark of a swan. With manuscript owner's entry to "Johanna Clazina Hesselink" decorated w. floral watercolour drawings, dated 1804.
AND 1 other 19th cent. full calf binding w. engr. silver clasps and catches, sm. 8vo.
- Upper hinge broken; first lvs. loose(ning); sl. foxed. Binding w. some worn spots.
AND a late 19th cent. bible w. silver clasp and catch.
- Oxidized and worn (from polishing). Nevertheless nice. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.
- Narrow waterstain in outer margin; spine bookblock glued to backstrip.
18th cent. sharkskin binding, with 2 silver chiselled clasps and catches w. simple shaped ornaments, all edges gilt and gauffered, - ON: BIBLIA: DAT IS, DE GANTSCHE H. SCHRIFTURE (...) (Dordr., 1740-43, 4 parts in 1 vol.).
- Recased, w. the upper margin cut short. Backstrip dam. and repaired.
= The silver is hallmarked, Amsterdam, 1747 and by the silversmith Bastiaen or Barent Yserlo.