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CORNELIS GALLE (1576-1650)

(circle) Scenes from the Old and New Testaments. Copper engraving, heightened with watercolour and gold paint. A set of twelve. Text on verso (presumably from a breviary or missal). All mounted in 17th-century binding with leather spine. Exceptionally fine contemporary colouring. Provenance: Pieter Van Tielt. 170 x 125 mm (x 12)

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