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BLUE VELVET WITH DECORATED 20 KT. GOLD FASTENINGS


[BIBLE - FASTENINGS]. Biblia; dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture. Vervattende alle de Canonijken Boeken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.
Het Nieuwe Testament, ...
Het Boek der Psalmen, ...
Evangelische Gezangen, om nevens het Boek der Psalmen bij den openbaren godsdienst in de Nederlandsche Hervormde Gemeenten gebruikt te worden.
Amsterdam, N.T. Gravius, J. Brandt, etc., [1797] (Evang. Gezang.: Johannes Allart, 1808). 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece and diamond-head music. On wove paper (except for the Evang. Gezang.). States translation. Blue velvet, gilt edges. With 2 Empire-style gold clasps in the form of pilasters, with their catch-plates, all fluted and decorated with rosettes and palmettes. Hallmarks: "J II B" (Jan Baptist Bertina, active in Amsterdam 1821-1867); 20 kt.; year letter script M (1821); lion's head A and rampant lion 2 (20 kt.).
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A complete Bible with psalms (in the 1773 states metric version) issued by the Bible company established in 1680. The additional hymns bound with this copy are those compiled in the years 1803-1805. The fastenings are built up of several pieces. In both the clasps and the shield-shaped catchplates, the main plate is simply fluted. A decorated strip with palmettes has been attached to the main plate on the fore-edge side of the catchplates and both ends of the clasps, and a rosette on a square base has been attached on each side of the palmette strip, so that only three palmettes remain visible in each strip.
With minor water stains in the first few leaves, but still in very good condition. Binding also very good. A small Bible and psalmbook bound in blue velvet with Empire-style gold fastenings.


