Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(LUTHER, MARTIN.) Mathesius, Johannes. Historien, von des . . . Doctoris Martini Luthers, Anfang, Lehr, Leben und Sterben. [8], 225 [i. e., 224] leaves. 4to, 193x145 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, covers decorated with Hope/Faith/Justice/Charity roll dated 1547 surrounding panel stamps of the Annunciation on front and Baptism of Christ on rear, front additionally stamped with monogram D B, worn overall; contents toned with scattered marginal foxing, dampstains, and soiling, old inscriptions and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, clean tear in X4, front free endpaper endpaper lacking. Nuremberg: [Ulrich Neuber], 1567

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Second edition of an early biography of Luther first published the year before.