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Taferelen der Voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testament, en Andere Boeken, bij de Heilige Schrift Gevoegt, door de vermaarde kunstenaars Hoet, Houbraken, en Picart getekent, en met Beschrijvingen uitgebreid. Het eerste deel. 

ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE EARLY 18th CENTURY.

214 MAPS (including 2 frontispieces) executed after drawings by Hoet, Houbraken and Picart, and accompanied by a legend in Hebrew, English, German, Latin, French and Dutch.
These splendid plates, engraved between 1705 and 1720, first appeared separately and were later inserted in the Discourses historiques, critiques, théologiques et moraux, sur les événemens les plus de mémorable du V. et du N. Testament, published in Amsterdam in 1728-39. French titles on both frontispieces: Figures from the Bible and Figures representing the most memorable events in the New Testament. 
According to Brunet (V, 150), "the copies were printed on four types of paper, the quality of which is indicated at the bottom of the titles of each volume",  ordinary or medium paper, royal paper, super-royal paper and imperial paper.
COPY ON ROYAL PAPER (Roiaal Paper), the thickness and whiteness of which produce extremely fine, high-contrast prints.

A FINE COPY, VERY PURE, BOUND IN THE PERIOD IN THREE VOLUMES OF STIFF VELLUM WITH COLD DECORATION AND TITLING IN PEN.
A copy on plain paper, recently sold at public auction, with an identical binding suggests that this type of cover was offered by the publisher.