BIBLE2 - DUTCH - Biblia, dat is: de gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments. Nu eerst, door last der Hoogh-Mog: Heeren Staten Generael vande Vereenighde Nederlanden ... Uyt de oorspronckelijcke talen in onse Nederlantsche tale getrouwelijck overgeset. Leyden, Paulus Aertsz. van Ravensteyn, for widow and heirs of Hillenbrant Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1636-1637. 4 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemp. blind-stamped full calf over wooden boards with two brass catches and clasps. With richly engr. architectural title, printed title to part 2 & 3, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials, and 6 large engr. maps. (24), 288; 27; (1 blank, 2), 138; (2), 166, (12); (4), 76 ff. First edition of the authorized Dutch version of the Bible. This first edition, also called the 'Standaardbijbel' or 'Corrigeerbijbel', must be considered a true monument in Dutch history and for Dutch language, and it was only published after many troublesome years of combined effort of translators, the States General and printers. The new type of Bible is also a monument of Dutch typography of the seventeenth century: letter, typesetting, printing, layout, all deserve the highest praise. In 1618 the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church decided to make an authorized translation of the Bible in Dutch. ADDED: 5 engr. folding maps, dated 1642 and published by Claes Jansz. Visscher, and one folding engr. map of the Holy Land ('Chorographia terræ sanctæ') published in Antwerp by Johannes Galle (Ca. 1635). In 1642 Claes Jansz. Visscher published 6 maps exclusively meant for copies of the States version of the Bible.

Good copy.- (Spine rubbed, top and bottom damaged). Darlow & Moule 3307; H. de la Fontaine Verwey, Uit de Wereld van het Boek II, pp. 77-102; Poortman, Bijbel en Prent I, p. 188-89; Poortman & Augusteijn, Kaarten in Bijbels p.141; Le Long, Boekzaal, pp. 802-9; Cat. Bijbel-Tentoonstelling Sted. Museum Amst., 1914, 634 (without maps); Cat. Tentoonstelling Bijbel en Prent 11 (idem)