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De kleine print-Bybel : waar in door verscheide af-beeldingen een meenigte van Bybelsche spreuken verklaart worden : tot vermaak der jeugd, en om te leeren elke zaak maauwkeurig af te schetzen, en by haaren regten naam te noemen : ook de spreuken der H. Schrift by na zonder moeite in het geheugen te bregen : uit de Hoogduitsche in de Hollandsche taal overgezet.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BS560 1772 + related ephemera
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Bible. Dutch. Selections. 1772.
- Language:
- Dutch
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Hieroglyphic Bibles.
- Penn Provenance:
- Spira, Moses Alter (donor)
- Dusseldorp, H. van (autograph, 1785)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 24 unnumbered pages, 150 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- zeop r-in ese, CXge (C) 1772 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Tot Amsterdam : By Dirk onder de Linden en zoon, boekverkopers ..., 1772.
- Notes:
- Illustrated Bible for children: each numbered plate is headed by a Biblical citation and contains the relevant passage rendered as a rebus; a letter-press key follows at end of volume.
- Signatures: pi² *⁴ A⁸ B⁴.
- Added engraved title leaf; engraved title vignette and plates.
- Woodcut initial and head-piece.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- From the collection of Dr. Moses Alter Spira.
- Penn Libraries copy has 4 lines of verse in Dutch, signed "H: Van Dússeldorp. [...]" and dated 1785, on front pastedown and front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 58450934
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