BINDING - Biblia, dat is de Gantsche Heylige Schrifture. Amsterdam, 1837, 12mo, attractively bound in full 19th-century Dutch tortoiseshell, highly elaborate gilt clasp, gilt edges.

BINDING - Biblia, dat is de Gantsche Heylige Schrifture. Amsterdam: Bij de Nederlandsche Bijbel-Compagne, 1837. 5 parts in one volume, 12mo (142 x 85mm). Engraved frontispiece, printed in double column. Attractively bound in full 19th-century Dutch tortoiseshell, with a finely-worked gilt clasp taking the form of a Doric pillar with cornucopia decoration, floral embossing on the hinges, gilt edges (some very light rubbing and scratching to the covers and spine). Provenance: [?]W. Weyland (old signature on the verso of the title, bleeding through to the title); later pink pen trials on front free endpaper.