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Lot 10
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$1,625
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[BIBLE, in German]. Biblia das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifte, durch Martin Luther verteutscht... Basel: Caspar Mangoldts, 1665.
Folio (400 x 244). Engraved title, 3 engraved double-page maps (of 6, with chipping and marginal losses); woodcut head-pieces and initials. (Some overall browning or soiling, engraved title with chipping.) Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, metal bosses and clasps (lacking 2 bosses and catches, a few repairs).
Includes the Old Testament, New Testament, and Apocrypha. With the rare double-hemisphere world (though torn and with some losses).