1102 - [MARTIN, David]. History of the Old and New Testaments, illustrated with more than four hundred engravings, &c. [...]. Amsterdam: P. Mortier, 1700, 2 vols., in-f°: [16, including engraved title page]–282–[8] pp., 141 ill. and 2 maps; [24, including engraved title page]-154-20 pp., 73 half-titles and 3 maps (small gallery of engravings at the end of vol. II, a few small stains and browning in the margins, brown stain in the center of p. 78 of vol. I). Contemporary calfskin, covers set with gilt scrolls (Greek fret and chain motif), spines with gilt floral decorations on raised bands and burgundy and green leather labels with a central red medallion, on the edges, gilt edges (numerous scratches and large scuffs on the covers, rounded corners, spine slightly soiled with visible restoration, joints split in Vol. I and rubbed in Vol. II, heavy creases on the endpapers). First edition of the “Grande Bible de Mortier,” published simultaneously in French in Antwerp and in Dutch in Amsterdam (our copy, however, bears the Dutch address despite the French text). Illustrated with 2 beautiful engraved title pages, 2 typographic title pages with large vignettes, 214 copperplate engravings on 2 subjects, captioned in French and Dutch and engraved after Elgers, Goerée, Hoet, Picart le Romain, etc., as well as 5 double-page maps (world map, Earthly Paradise, Holy Land, Journeys of the Israelites and the Apostles), 3 of which are signed by L. van Luchtenburg. The text of Volume II is embellished with headpieces, initials, and 28 large tailpieces and includes the plate printed “with the nails” (II-145). Ref. Tenschert, *Biblia Sacra*, no. 101. - Cohen 489–491 (erroneously counts 75 plates in Volume II). - Lewine 240. - Reynaud 236. - Not listed in Darlow-Moule, Renier, or Poortman & Augusteijn, *Kaarten in Bijbels*.