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LUTHER, MARTIN. Tomus primus[-quartus et idem ultimus] omnium operum Reverendi Patris D. M. L. Titles within woodcut historiated border showing Luther and Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony, kneeling on either side of the crucified Christ, with symbolic depictions of the Evangelists above; full-page woodcut in Volumes 1, 3, and 4 depicting the dedicatees, Johann Friedrich II, Johann Wilhelm, and Johann Friedrich III of Saxony. [12], 579, [4]; [6], 603; [4], 564; [4], 822, [2] leaves. 4 volumes. Folio, 313x194 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, front covers additionally stamped I K and 1562 in black, brass catches, missing some clasps, front joint partly cracked on Volumes 1-3, portion of pigskin missing from bottom of Volume 3 front cover; contents browned with some marginal dampstaining, occasional early underscoring and marginalia, paper corrosion and worming in lower outer corner of Volume 2 title affecting border on recto and illustration on verso, Volume 3 title torn in blank outer margin and crudely reinforced on blank verso, hole in 2T4 in Volume 4 causing some text loss, some free endpapers lacking. Jena: Christian Rhodius, 1556-57; heirs of Christian Rhodius, 1557-58
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