1669 HUGE 2-VL ANTIQUE ELZEVIR FRENCH HOLY BIBLE+5 MAPS

ULTRA-RARE & NON-EXISTENT ON THE MARKET!

TWO HUGE, MASSIVE, ELEPHANT FOLIO VOLUME GENEVA HOLY BIBLE IN FRENCH, BY THE FAMOUS ELZEVIR!

IN THEIR ORIGINAL FANCY LEATHER BINDINGS!

*** WITH FIVE (5) LARGE MAPS CONSISTING OF 4 DOUBLE-PAGE MAPS OF PARADISE, ISRAEL IN THE DESERT, CANAAN, AND THE VOYAGES OF THE APOSTLES, PLUS AN ADDITIONAL ENGRAVED PLAN OF JERUSALEM!

[1669 Elzevir Geneva Bible 2-Volumes Royal Folio]


"LA SAINTE BIBLE." (The Holy Bible in French) (Geneva or "Breeches" Version) Amsterdam: Louis & Daniel Elzevir, 1669. Samuel & Herni Des Marets, eds. Folio. 4pts in 2 Massive Elephant Folio Volumes, 450 x 280mm (Each Massive Volume is 18 ½" x 12" Inches HUGE!) This Gigantic Set Weighs approx. 40 Pounds! Both Volumes are Bound in their Original, Handsome Contemporary 1669 mottled Dutch Calf Leather, blind tooled with large Central Lozenges, Extensive and Fancy Gilt decorations to compartments on spines, boards bowed out at edges. Engraved Title Page by Berchem & mathan, WITH 4 HUGE ENGRAVED DOUBLE-PAGE MAPS OF PARADISE, ISRAEL IN THE DESERT, CANAAN, AND THE VOYAGES OF THE APOSTLES, PLUS AN ADDITIONAL ENGRAVED PLAN OF JERUSALEM! All Pages are Clean, Crisp & Fresh with Original Wide Margins! IN NEAR-MINT CONDITON INSIDE & OUT! This Massive 2-Volume Bible is the Large Paper "Frans Real" edition!

The Editors, Samuel des Marets (Theological Professor at Groningen) and his son, Henri des Marets (Pastor of the French Church at Delft), adopted the text of Pierre des Hayes' Paris edition of 1652. They printed all the Geneva notes, a good number of those by Diodati; and added a translation of all those in the Dutch States-General version published at Dort in 1636-7; and also inserted others derived from notes by Pierre deLaunay and similar sources. In the marginal references they followed the Dutch Bible. [Darlow & Moule] Darlow & Moule 3760. Willems 1402. "Edition executee avec un grand luxe typograhique." Rahir 1470. Goldsmid I, 40 "Magnificent." "Cette Bible, enterprise depuis plusieures annees, pouvait a bon droit pour un des plus beaux monuments de la typographie elzevirienne." [Willems]

THE GENEVA BIBLE was a translation of the Bible introduced by the Protestant expatriates who fed England during the repressive regime of Queen Mary who became known to history as "Bloody Mary." Wanting a translation of the Bible to instruct their children they produced this translation known as the Geneva Bible for the location which produced it. It is often also called the "Breeches" Bible for the fact that Adam and Eve made "breeches" after eating the apple. It is sometimes also called the "Pilgrim's" Bible since it was the translation taken to the New World by the Pilgrims. Despite the existence of the Bishop's Bible, the Geneva Bible became the main Bible in use in England until it was replaced by the King James Bible in 1611. This translation of the Bible contains extensive commentary in the margins and so was and is both a Bible and a Bible Commentary in a single volume.

The reign of Queen Mary (a.k.a. "Bloody Mary") was an obstacle to the printing of the Bible in English. She was possessed in her quest to return England to the Roman Church. In 1555, John Rogers ("Thomas Matthew") and Thomas Cranmer were both burned at the stake. Mary went on to burn reformers at the stake by the hundreds for the "crime" of being a Protestant. This era was known as the Marian Exile, and the refugees fled from England with little hope of ever seeing their home or friends again.

In the 1550's, the Church at Geneva, Switzerland, was very sympathetic to the reformer refugees and was one of only a few safe havens for a desperate people. Many of them met in Geneva, led by Myles Coverdale and John Foxe (publisher of the famous Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which is to this day the only exhaustive reference work on the persecution and martyrdom of Early Christians and Protestants from the first century up to the mid-16th century), as well as Thomas Sampson and William Whittingham. There, with the protection of John Calvin and John Knox, the Church of Geneva determined to produce a Bible that would educate their families while they continued in exile.

The New Testament was completed in 1557, and the complete Bible was first published in 1560. It became known as the Geneva Bible. Due to a passage in Genesis desribing the clothing that God fashioned for Adam and Eve upon expulsion from the Garden of Eden as "Breeches" (an antiquated form of "Britches"), some people referred to the Geneva Bible as the "Breeches" Bible.

The Geneva Bible was the first Bible to add verses to the chapters, so that referencing specific passages would be easier. Every chapter was also accompanied by extensive marginal notes and references so thorough and complete that the Geneva Bible is also considered the first English "Study Bible". William Shakespeare quotes thousands of times in his plays from the Geneva translation of the Bible. The Geneva Bible became the Bible of choice for over 100 years of English speaking Christians. Between 1560 and 1644 at least 144 editions of this Bible were published. Examination of the 1611 King James Bible shows clearly that its translators were influenced much more by the Geneva Bible, than by any other source. The Geneva Bible itself retains over 90% of William Tyndale's original English translation. The Geneva Bible in fact, remained more popular than the King James Version until decades after its original release in 1611! The Geneva Bible holds the honor of being the first Bible taken to America and the Bible of the Puritans and the Pilgrims.


***A SPECTACULAR INVESTMENT OR GIFT!***

SEE MY OTHER ITEMS OR LOSE OUT!!!

http://stores.ebay.com/THE-WORD-Antiquarian-Books