[BIBLE]. History of the Old and New Testaments. Enrichie - Lot 209

[BIBLE]. History of the Old and New Testaments. Enrichie de plus de quatre cens figures en taille-douce, etc. Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1700. 2 vols. in-folio de 1 f. bl., faux-titre, titre engraved frontispiece, title with gr. vignette, [7] ff. with engraved headband initial, 282, [8] pp. 141 plates and 3 double-page maps double-page maps; 1 bl. f., false-title, engraved frontispiece title with gr. vignette, [18] pp. with 2 vignettes and 1 gr. letter, 154 pp, 20 pp, 1 bl. f., 73 plates, 2 alphabetical tables and 2 double-page hors-texte maps; numerous gr. vignettes in lamp-heads. Fawn calf, spine with 6 richly ornamented spine, red morocco title and triple cold-stamped fillet on the boards, gilt roulette on the gilt edges (contemporary binding). Printed "with nails". Author, printer and engraver all vied with each other to make this work a masterpiece. Cohen, I, 489; Brunet, III, 200-201. Volume I: Binding stained, one tailbone split, headbands worn, wear to nerves and corners, inside fresh. nerves and corners, fresh interior; Volume II: small accident to tail cap, wear to nerves and corners, rubbing to boards with restorations; marginal wetness on p. 118 to end with slight damage to border of engravings. engravings. A good copy, however, complete with plates, elegantly bound.