[Basnage] 'T Groot Waerelds Tafereel,

Waar in de Heilige en Waereldsche Geschiedenissen en Veranderingen zedert de Schepping des Waerelds Tot het Uiteinde van de Openbaring van Johannes, door Konst-Tafereelen Historieel en Sinbeeldig worden afgemaalt, en ider Konst-Prent opgeheldert (...). In 't Frans beschreven door Hr. J. Basnage (...). Vertaalt en met Vaarsen verrykt door Hr. Mr. A. Alewyn. Amsterdam, J. Lindenbergh, 1715, 3 volumes in one binding, (14),168; 91,(1); 66 p., with engraved portraits of Johan Trip and the author, two engraved frontispieces (the one before the O.T. antiquely hand-coloured as well as the vignettes with the explanation of the frontispiece), else with 2 double-page engraved maps and 139 half-page numbered illustrations on plates (mostly two per plate, the other part above various engraved vignettes), a double-page bird's eye perspective of the Temple of Jerusalem (= illustration 58) (frontispieces, maps and numbered illustrations by Romeyn de Hooghe) original marbled calf with the large gilt central panel within double gilt borders on both boards as is characteristic for this book, folio.

First frontispiece and various plates tender or loose and therefore slightly frayed, several engravings possibly from another copy; binding in poor condition: leather tender and dry. Besides the binding also the colouring of the first frontispiece and the two accompanying vignettes standard with this edition. The first edition appeared in 1705, the first edition of the plates in a print bible from 1703.