Gazette Drouot logo print
Lot n° 34

Biblia, Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft,...

Result :
Not available
Estimate :
Subscribers only

Biblia germanica Biblia, this is The Whole Holy Scripture, Old and New Testaments. Like those by...Martin Luther ...ended in 1534 ... Together with a preface by Mr. Johann Michael Dilherrns... With stabbed. Title vignette, 7 full pages. Text copper and 144 tex woodcuts after J.J. Sandrart and Elias Porzel et al. Nuremberg, Endters Nachf., 1710. 34 sheets, 1181 p., 6 (of 11) sheets. Folio. Blind checked pigskin leather on wooden covers (more soiled, lower capital damaged, wormholes, missing clasps). Cf. Schmidt, Illustr. Lutherbibel, 382 f. - Jahn 117: "15th edition of 1710. With this first edition of the II. Endterische Holzschnittbibel the Dilherr-Bibel receives a comprehensive new equipment and regains 'own weight and rank'."" The emblematic woodcuts in good impression. In front a biography of Martin Luther with a corresponding copper plate with 5 oval portraits of Luther and his family. The "Confessio Augustana" in the back incomplete. - In front some loose sheets and dog-ears, title with marginalläsuren and more strongly soiled, throughout a little bit foxing and brownstained, partly waterstained.