Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
MAYER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH. Historia versionis Germanicae Bibliorum D. Martini Lutheri. [26], 212, [8] pages. Small 4to, contemporary boards, spine darkened and worn, ends chipped, cover fore edges worn; lower margins trimmed close without text loss, blank upper outer corner off A1, 19th-century cuttings from booksellers' catalogues mounted on endpapers and in a few places in the text. Signature of the Philadelphia physician John Redman Coxe (1773-1864) in title gutter; bookplate of Robert Ellis Thompson (1844-1924). Hamburg: Gottfried Liebezeit, [1701]

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first edition of a study of the composition and publishing history of Luther''s translation of the Bible into German, with notes on other German versions.