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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

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