76/2015 [Biblia neerlandica. Printbibles]. Basnage, J. 't Groot Waerelds Tafereel, Waer in de Heilige en Waereldsche Geschiedenissen en Veranderingen zedert de Schepping des Waerelds Tot het uiteinde van de Openbaring van Johannes, Door Konst-Tafereelen Historieel en Sinbeeldig worden afgemaalt (...). Dutch translation A. Alewyn. Amst., J. Lindenberg, n.d. (1715), 3 parts in 1 vol., (8),12,180; 92; 66p., 1 (of 2) contemp. handcol. engr. title-p. heightened w. gold, 4 contemp. handcol. engr. vignettes (on the explanatory leaves for the Old and New Testaments) heightened w. gold, engr. title-vignette, 2 double-p. engr. maps, 2 double-p. (bird's eye) views, 84 plates w. 2 half-p. ills. and/ or vignettes by i.a. ROMEYN DE HOOGHE, C. HUIBERTZ and C. LUIKEN, contemp. gilt panelled mottled calf w. on both sides large gilt central medallion depicting an allegorical scene of a fettered man lying on the floor with a flight of angels descending from heaven past an armillary sphere (on which two evangelists are seated) to liberate him, the whole flanked by gilt leafy borders, folio.

- Lacks the two portraits; occas. foxed and yellowed; partly fingersoiled in lower margin/ corner; one dedic. leaf restored in margins; margins of worldmap partly strengthened on verso; closed false tear at lower end of central fold in plan of Jerusalem; blank margin of the bird's eye view of Jerusalem sl. dam. (not affecting image); a few leaves in final part waterstained; new endpapers. Binding corners and spine-ends restored; top of both joints splitting and top of spine a few sm. tears.

= On this printbible of Basnage and Alewyn, which went through 10 editions between 1705 and 1721, in extenso Poortman II, p.109-120. Landwehr, R. de H. as book ill. 100; Hollstein IX, 2; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 40; Klaversma/ Hannema 130. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.