Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 167

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) [Biblia Latina.] 2 volumes. Folio, 417x305 mm, original elaborately blind-stamped leather over wooden boards by Albert Köllner of Leipzig, slight wear to raised bands, spine ends, joints, and cover edges, Volume 1 joints starting at bottom; contents clean. (Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1913-14)

Additional Details

number 16 of 300 sets of the first facsimile edition of the gutenberg bible, superbly reproduced in full color from illuminated vellum copies at Berlin and Fulda, and bound in imitation of the contemporary binding on the Fulda copy. Without the 1923 volume of commentary by Paul Schwenke. Sarkowski 163.