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Bound by the Amsterdam 'Double Drawer Handle Bindery'

CALMET, (Antoine) Augustin.
Het algemeen groot historisch, oordeelkundig, chronologisch, geografisch, en letterlyk naam- en woord-boek, van den gantschen H. Bijbel. Dienende tot de gedenk-stukken der Jooden en andere oudheden, ter opheldering der H. Schrift ... Nu in't Nederduitsch overgezet, merkelyk vermeerdert, en met aanmerkingen verrykt, door Mattheus Gargon.
Complete with the: Byvogzel tot het algemeen groot ... Naam- en woord-boek ... En nu in zuiver Nederduitsch overgezet, merkelyk vermeerdert, en metv aanmerkingen verrykt, door Jakob van Ostade en Arn. Henr. Westerhovius.

With engraved frontispiece by Ph. de Gunst, engraved vignettes on 2 titles, 2 engraved dedications, 5 engraved headpieces by P. Tanjee, and 160 mainly double-page engraved maps, plans, views  and plates of biblical scenes, religious costumes, religious objects and implements, coins, medals, etc. by A. de Putter, F. van Bleyswyk, M. Pool, Ph. de Gunst, etc., titles printed in red and black.

With engraved frontispiece by Ph. de Gunst, engraved vignettes on 2 titles, 2 engraved dedications, 5 engraved headpieces by P. Tanjee, and 160 mainly double-page engraved maps, plans, views  and plates of biblical scenes, religious costumes, religious objects and implements, coins, medals, etc. by A. de Putter, F. van Bleyswyk, M. Pool, Ph. de Gunst, etc., titles printed in red and black.

With engraved frontispiece by Ph. de Gunst, engraved vignettes on 2 titles, 2 engraved dedications, 5 engraved headpieces by P. Tanjee, and 160 mainly double-page engraved maps, plans, views  and plates of biblical scenes, religious costumes, religious objects and implements, coins, medals, etc. by A. de Putter, F. van Bleyswyk, M. Pool, Ph. de Gunst, etc., titles printed in red and black.

With engraved frontispiece by Ph. de Gunst, engraved vignettes on 2 titles, 2 engraved dedications, 5 engraved headpieces by P. Tanjee, and 160 mainly double-page engraved maps, plans, views  and plates of biblical scenes, religious costumes, religious objects and implements, coins, medals, etc. by A. de Putter, F. van Bleyswyk, M. Pool, Ph. de Gunst, etc., titles printed in red and black.

With engraved frontispiece by Ph. de Gunst, engraved vignettes on 2 titles, 2 engraved dedications, 5 engraved headpieces by P. Tanjee, and 160 mainly double-page engraved maps, plans, views  and plates of biblical scenes, religious costumes, religious objects and implements, coins, medals, etc. by A. de Putter, F. van Bleyswyk, M. Pool, Ph. de Gunst, etc., titles printed in red and black.



Leiden, Amsterdam, Samuel Luchtmans, R. & J. Wetstein en Smith 1725-1731. 4 vols. Large folio. Magnificently and uniformly bound in contemporary richly gilt decorated marbled calf with gilt borders, centre pieces and binding edges, spines ribbed and gilt in compartments with titles lettered in gold by 'the Double Drawer Handle Bindery' at Amsterdam. With engraved frontispiece by Ph. de Gunst, engraved vignettes on 2 titles, 2 engraved dedications, 5 engraved headpieces by P. Tanjee, and 160 mainly double-page engraved maps, plans, views  and plates of biblical scenes, religious costumes, religious objects and implements, coins, medals, etc. by A. de Putter, F. van Bleyswyk, M. Pool, Ph. de Gunst, etc., titles printed in red and black. Tog. ca. 3800 pp.

Rare complete set, with all supplements published, of an encyclopaedic dictionary on all aspects of the history, geography and culture of the Bible and Biblical times, including the history, geography and culture of Jewish antiquity, together  with an extensive Hebrew-Dutch dictionary. The  work, a typical product of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, presents a huge source of information for interested students. Today the dictionary is rarely found complete and in such fine condition.
The encyclopaedia itself in two volumes was published by Samuel Luchtmans in Leiden: vol. 1 in 1725; vol. 2 together with Rudolf & his son Jacob Wetstein in Amsterdam in 1727. The 'Byvoegzel' is published in two volumes by the same publishers, together with Rudolf's son-in-law William Smith in 1731.

Antoine Augustin Calmet (1672-1757), French Benedictine, joined the same order in 1688. After his ordination, in 1696, he was appointed to teach philosophy and theology at Moyenmoutier Abbey. Here with the help of his brethren he began to gather the material for his commentary of the Bible. The first volume appeared in Paris in 1707 with the title Commentaire littéral sur tous les livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament; the last of the twenty-three quarto volumes, owing to various delays, was published only in 1716 (further editions in 1714-1720, and 1724-1726). The work inaugurated a new method of Biblical exegesis. The most valuable part of the commentary were the introductory prefaces to the several books and 114 learned dissertations on special topics. These he published separately with nineteen new ones in three volumes, under the title Dissertations qui peuvent servir de prolégomènes à l'Écriture Sainte (Paris, 1720). The collection met with such success that two editions were printed at Amsterdam in 1722, the title being changed to Trésors d'antiquités sacrées et profanes. It was translated into several European languages.
In the meanwhile he had prepared two other works closely connected with Biblical exegesis: (1) Histoire de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament et des Juifs (Paris, 1718), which went through several editions, and (2) Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, géographique et littéral de la Bible (Paris, 1720, two vols. folio), a supplement (also folio) was added in 1728. This work too, was translated into Latin and the principal European languages. The English translation by D'Oyley and John Colson (1732), revised and with additions by Taylor (1795), went through many editions in a larger and compendious form. Our copy is the Dutch translation by Mattheus Gargon (1661-1728), a minister at Flushing, with annotations by Jakob van Ostade en Arn. Henr. Westerhovius.

Our copy is extraoridinary bound in uniform bindings by a known Amsterdam bindery, probably directed by Rudolf Wetstein (1679-1742) himself. Storm van Leeuwen mentions that the last definite year of operations of the Double Drawer Handle Bindery coincides with Rudolf's death and that it is perfectly possible to see Rudolf  as the director of the Bindery. He writes that 'the Wedstein firm must have commissioned the Double Drawer Handle Bindery between 1721 and 1731 to make several fine presentation copies'. Two or three of these works are known, and our copy can be added now!
Eventually our copy came in the famous library of J.W. Six: perhaps the copy has originally been presented to his forefather Jan Six II (1668-1750), the son of Jan I (1718-1700), the friend of Rembrandt.

Fine uniformly bound set, from the library of J.W. Six.
Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch decorated bookbinding I, pp. 228-84, esp. 235-7 and 264; tools a.o. 64, 69 and 133; borders III and XII and centre-piece L.

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