MINIATURE BIBLE, Dutch - Kern des Bybels, The Hague, 1750, 42 x 30mm., printed in red and black, 7 woodcut plates printed in red, contemporary calf gilt, metal clasp. RARE.

MINIATURE BIBLE, Dutch - Kern des Bybels. The Hague: A. de Groot en Zoonen, 1750. 42 x 30mm. Title lettered in black with woodcut device stamped in red, 7 woodcut plates and the text printed in red, ornaments printed in black. Contemporary calf by the first Stadholder Bindery, with floral ornament stamped in gilt on the covers, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, uncut, metal clasps (small piece torn away from head of spine, some minor worming at lower joints). Adomeit Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles no. 14; cf. Bondy p.37 (citing the French edition); Pistner 99; cf. Neelands & Joffe (2022) 140 (citing a copy "with title printed in red with device only in black, headings and tailpiece in red"); Welsh 998. FIRST EDITION, variant issue printed in red and black. RARE.