Lot 593
Biblia germanica. - Dilherr-Bibel. Nuremberg 1729.
Estimate
€ 600
Starting Price
€ 400
Lot:
593
Category:
History, cultural history and miscellaneous
Biblia germanica. - Biblia, Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft deß Alten und Neuen Testaments. Übersetzt von Martin Luther. Samt einer Vorrede Herrn Johann Michael Dilherrns. Nürnberg: Endter Erben 1729. 35,7 x 24,2 cm. With 2 engraved half-titles (for the New Testament and the Four Gospels), 1 half-title vignette, 3 (of 6?) full-page copperplate engravings by A. Nunzer, 1 full-page portrait and numerous woodcuts by E. Porzel after J. J. Sandrart. 36 leaves, 1181 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 11 leaves; 6 (of 12?) leaves bound in between. Blind-stamped leather binding on 4 bands over heavy wooden covers with 8 corner fittings and 2 remnants of clasps.
(Worn and stained; clasps missing; front spine joint broken; binding defects on the capitals; binding of the back cover wavy. Endpaper on the title page preserved only in fragments; flyleaf with contemporary historical notes in dark ink. Title page with missing sections at the top and bottom margins; stained, worm-eaten and creased at the spine. The first 90 pages show numerous paper imperfections such as tears, small holes, wormholes and marginal reinforcements, or worn edges, and are brown-stained in places. The portrait shows paper abrasion on Luther’s face. The plate introducing the most prominent figures in the Books of Moses has been backed along the outer margin. The half-title page for the New Testament has been backed along the top margin due to slight loss of the image. Tanned, with age spots and numerous minor signs of age and wear.)
Vgl. VD18 1525772X. Vgl. Darlow/Moule 4232. Vgl. Schmidt, S. 382 f. - One of the later editions of the Dilherr Bible, printed at the historic Endter printing house in Nuremberg, which for generations was counted amongst the most important Bible printers in the German-speaking world, even though the family, despite owning their own mill, gained a dubious reputation for the quality of their paper. The Lutheran and Nuremberg preacher Johann Michael Dilherr (1604–1669) wrote the preface to this Bible, which was reprinted many times and richly illustrated; it was Endter’s longest-lasting, most successful and final edition of the Bible to feature woodcuts. - The unusual portrait of Luther depicts the Reformer at his writing desk beneath the portraits of his parents and his wife. - In addition to the portrait of Luther, it contains the following subheadings and plates by A. Nunzer: 1. A presentation of the most distinguished figures mentioned in the Five Books of Moses; 2. Depictions of the figures to whom the historical books are primarily devoted (Joshua, Samuel, David, Solomon); 3. Intertitles for the New Testament; 4. Intertitles for the Gospels; 5. Illustrations of the Apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ.
(Worn and stained; clasps missing; front spine joint broken; binding defects on the capitals; binding of the back cover wavy. Endpaper on the title page preserved only in fragments; flyleaf with contemporary historical notes in dark ink. Title page with missing sections at the top and bottom margins; stained, worm-eaten and creased at the spine. The first 90 pages show numerous paper imperfections such as tears, small holes, wormholes and marginal reinforcements, or worn edges, and are brown-stained in places. The portrait shows paper abrasion on Luther’s face. The plate introducing the most prominent figures in the Books of Moses has been backed along the outer margin. The half-title page for the New Testament has been backed along the top margin due to slight loss of the image. Tanned, with age spots and numerous minor signs of age and wear.)
Vgl. VD18 1525772X. Vgl. Darlow/Moule 4232. Vgl. Schmidt, S. 382 f. - One of the later editions of the Dilherr Bible, printed at the historic Endter printing house in Nuremberg, which for generations was counted amongst the most important Bible printers in the German-speaking world, even though the family, despite owning their own mill, gained a dubious reputation for the quality of their paper. The Lutheran and Nuremberg preacher Johann Michael Dilherr (1604–1669) wrote the preface to this Bible, which was reprinted many times and richly illustrated; it was Endter’s longest-lasting, most successful and final edition of the Bible to feature woodcuts. - The unusual portrait of Luther depicts the Reformer at his writing desk beneath the portraits of his parents and his wife. - In addition to the portrait of Luther, it contains the following subheadings and plates by A. Nunzer: 1. A presentation of the most distinguished figures mentioned in the Five Books of Moses; 2. Depictions of the figures to whom the historical books are primarily devoted (Joshua, Samuel, David, Solomon); 3. Intertitles for the New Testament; 4. Intertitles for the Gospels; 5. Illustrations of the Apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ.