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(BIBLE IN GERMAN.) Biblia; das ist, Die gantze heylige Schrifft Teutsch. D. Mart. Luth. General title in red and black within woodcut historiated border with vignettes of Bible scenes; full-page portrait of the dedicatee, Christoph, Duke of Württemberg, on the next leaf. [18], 352; 382 leaves, plus leaf of explanatory text facing full-page woodcut of the Temple on i4v. 2 volumes in one, profusely illustrated with woodcuts by Jost Amman after Johann Bocksberger in the first volume, and by Hans Brosamer in the second. Folio, 364x234 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass cornerpiece, catches, and clasps, recased, endpapers renewed; occasional toning or browning, scattered marginal soiling and stains, few repairs in blank lower margins, vertical crease in general title and next leaf, small piece missing from blank lower margin of title, hole in B3 with slight text loss, conspicuous stains at end of first volume. Springfield City Library Association bookplate on front pastedown, their perforated stamp on general title and A1. [Frankfurt am Main]: Sigmund Feyerabend, Georg Rab & heirs of Weygand Han, 1567; Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1556
Hybrid copy, combining Genesis-Song of Songs from the 1567 Frankfurt edition and Isaiah-Revelation (including the Apocrypha) from the 1556 Wittenberg edition.
