FIGURES DE LA BIBLE.
The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1728. In-plano, marbled calf, spine decorated, red edges (Binding of the time). Superb picture bible containing 2 title-frontispices and 212 etched plates, 28 of which are double-page, executed after drawings by Bernard Picart, Gérard Hoet and Arnold Houbraken. The captions are in six languages: French, English, German, Dutch, Latin and Hebrew.
From the Royal Library, with stamp on each plate (exchange BnF 1976).
Hinges cracked, missing headpieces and corners, scuffing on boards, a few quires partially unbound, small scratches on one plate.