[Bijbel] Biblia Sacra ad vetustissima

Exe[m]plaria nunc recens castigata Romae q[uae] revisa (...) Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1581. Small 8vo, illus. and blindstamped leather binding (16th-century (?), not the original binding), illus. title page, (16),1114 pp. + 4 indices. Numerous woodcuts (8 x 5,5 cm) with mostly biblical scenes in the text.

Spine with dam., binding mounted the wrong way around. The front board (now back board) with Christogram and from the foundation of the Jesuit order the emblem of the Jesuits, recognisable by the three nails below the emblem; the back board (now front board) with image of Mary with the child Jesus. Incomplete copy (lacks several pp.). Bookplate of A. Pitlo. Sold as seen w.a.f.