Live veiling - Lot 797
[Bible]
Biblia, Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft, Alten und Neuen Testaments [...].
Hof, J.E. Schultze, 1736
€ 300 / 400
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Folio: [45 (of 62)] ff., 524 pp., [5] ff., 384 pp., [1] ff., 286 pp., [8] ff. (without all the portraits and the part "Lebens-Geschichte und Abbildungen derer durchlauchtigsten Marggrafen", plenty of paper restaurations to the margins in the beginning and in the first quires).
Leather over wood, front cover with initials "J.A.K." and "1736", brass catches, renewed clasps, renewed endpapers, a.e.g. (restored on several places). S.w.a.f.
Rare Bavarian Bible-edition translated into German by Martin Luther. With a foreword by M. Adam Nicolai Meyer, superintendent and pastor appointed by the High Prince of Brandenburg-Culmbach in Hof, and also inspector and priest of the High Princely Gymnasium. Ill. with only the engr. title with a small view of Hof. Plenty of woodcuts in the text.
Ref. VD18 14870622. - Not in Darlow-Moule.