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LUYKEN, Jean.

Histoire les plus Remarquables de L'ancien et du Nouveau Testament,

Gravées en cuivre Par le célèbre Jean Luyken, et enrichie d'une savante description.

Stock Code
106818
Amsterdam, Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, 1732
£3,750

First French edition (originally published in Dutch in 1729), illustrated throughout with engraved plates, maps, and illustrations by Jan Luyken (1649-1712). The famous series of plates by Luyken illustrate the grandest events recorded in the Old and New Testaments, and are accompanied by captions in French and Dutch.

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Description

First edition; 2 parts in one volume, folio, (46.7 x 29.5 cm); half-title, titles in red and black, 62 double-page engraved plates, including additional pictorial title, 5 double-page engraved maps, and 29 engraved illustrations all by Jan Luyken, text a little browned, some slight spotting and soiling, red endpapers; full contemporary green morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, an attractive copy; [xxv], 78; 60pp.

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