[BIBLE - DUTCH].
Biblia. Dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonycke boeken des Oude en des Nieuwen Testaments ...
Amsterdam, Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrik and Dirk Boom, 1676.
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(2) [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - DUTCH]. Het Nieuwe Testament ...
Amsterdam, for Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1677.
(3) [PSALMBOOK - DUTCH]. De CL Psalmen des propheten Davids ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1676. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo (15.3 x 9.3 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved general title page, the woodcut coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam on the verso of the title page, a small woodcut decorated initial , and a woodcut floral tailpiece. Ad 2 with a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, the woodcut coat of arms below the "acte van consent" on the verso of the title page, a woodcut headpiece and tailpiece, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3 with a woodcut vignette on the title page, all psalms are accompanied by musical notation. Late 18th- or early 19th-century brown sheepskin with late 17th-century silver fittings, marbled endpapers, and gilt edges. 338; [2], "109" [= 107], [1 blank]; [98] ll.
€ 12,500
Very scarce, early edition of the Dutch States Bible as published by the Amsterdam publisher's "company" of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, and Hendrik and Dirk Boom. The present copy presumably was a gift to Catharina Maria Daey (1645-in or after 1689) on the occasion of her marriage in October 1681 to Captain Peter Ebels (1644-in or after 1689 in 1681. Their names are engraved on the inside of the silver clasps. Together they had 6 children. Peter Ebels was Catharina Maria's second husband, she was married to Hermannus Folckers (ca. 1639-1680) from 1664 until his death and the pair had 3 children.
The present edition includes the New Testament and the 110 psalms of David, but does not include the apocrypha. It is the first or one of the earliest editions of the Dutch States Bible published by the "company" of Van Someren, Wolfgang, De Groot, and H. & D. Boom. It is very scarce, as barely any copies of this edition are known in institutions. WorldCat mentions 2 copies (one in the US and one in Australia), while the STCN does not list this 1676 edition of the work as a whole and only lists two copies (incl. 1 incomplete) of the New Testament and only 1 of the Psalms.
A more detailed overview of the provenance is available upon request.
With a small auction catalogue clipping mounted on the back pastedown, including some manuscript annotations giving details about the auction: "10-6-1925. Veiling van Huffelt's antiquariaat". The binding is somewhat rubbed and scratched, mainly around the spine, the engraved general title page is somewhat soiled. Otherwise in very good condition. General: I. le Long, Boek-zaal der Nederduytsche bybels, p. 823; (an 1676 8vo ed. by Van Someren and an 1677 4to ed by Boom); WorldCat 12888441, 221949558 (2 copies); cf. Darlow & Moule 3328 (1683/1684 ed.); WorldCat 312838290 (1 copy, 1675/1676 ed.); ad 1: cf. STCN 296511013 (1 copy, 1677 4to ed. by same printers); USTC 1813190 (1 copy, same as STCN); ad 2: STCN 305830120 (2 copies, incl. 1 incomplete); ad 3: STCN 39791296X (1 copy); USTC 1812276 (1 copy).
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