Lot 10 , [Bible - an early 18th cent. German illustrated Lutheran Bible], Biblia, Das ist Die gantze Heilige Schrift. Alten und Neuen Testaments, verteutscht durch D. Martin Luther ..., Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt]: In verlegun

[Bible - an early 18th cent. German illustrated Lutheran Bible]
Biblia, Das ist Die gantze Heilige Schrift. Alten und Neuen Testaments, verteutscht durch D. Martin Luther ...
Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt]: In verlegung M. Merians sel. erben, 1704, Folio.
Contemporary embossed pigskin binding with incomplete copper clasps pictorial engraved and printed titles (this latter in red and black, NT. with pictorial engraved title, includes Apocrypha (drophead title), many engraved illus. throughout (by Mathias Merian), head and tailpiece decoration and decorated initial letters, main text black letter; contemp. blind-decorated vellum with panelled spine, folio. Frankfurt am Mayn ... 1704. *with an elaborate full-page and coloured 1872 wedding inscription (English), written from Theydon Garnon Rectory (Essex), verso of pictorial title
£300-400

Condition:
Vg. copy, mostly clean - just a few isolated spots. (48), 675, 264, 182, 328pp. old metal clasps present but leather ties damaged