Lot 681

* M. Luther, Der eilffte Teil der Bücher. Wittenberg 1572.

Estimate
€ 300
Starting Price
€ 200
Lot: 681
Category: Old prints up to 1600
Artist: Martin Luther
Luther, Martin: Der Eilffte Teil der Bücher des Ehrwirdigen Herrn D. Martini Lutheri, Nemlich, die herrliche Auslegung uber das erste Buch Mosi, welchs ein Quell und ursprung ist aller Prophetischen und Apostolischen Schrifften, Vom anfang des XX. Capitels, bis zum ende. (Hrsg. v. Johannes Gudenus). Wittenberg: Lorenz Schwenk 1572. 31,2 x 19 cm. With a woodcut title page and several woodcut initials. 8, 336 (r. 338) numbered, 5 unnumbered, 6 unnumbered, 381 numbered leaves. Blind-stamped pigskin over wooden covers with 4 bands, featuring portrait centrepieces on the covers and 2 fastenings.

(Stained and mottled; lower corners and edges restored; clasps missing. Title page with a crease, brown and water-stained, with a repaired corner tear and wormholes; title page detached from the lower binding. The first page of the dedication with a repaired corner tear. The first and last sections have damp edges. Browning of varying degrees throughout, with occasional water or brown stains.)

VD16 L 3379. Wolgast, Die Wittenberger Luther-Ausgabe (in: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, XI [1971]), Sp. 222. - Volume 11 of the twelve-volume first German complete edition, fourth edition (first published by Thomas Klug in 1558).