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LUYKEN, Jean.

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

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

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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.

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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