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1566 BIBLE ILLUSTRATED by JOST AMMAN antique RARE Sigismund Feierabend FOLIO

1566 BIBLE ILLUSTRATED by JOST AMMAN antique RARE Sigismund Feierabend FOLIO

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Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata...

Frankfurt; Sigismund Feierabend ; 1566.

Folio: 9 by 14"

With title vignette, numerous fabulous text woodcut engravings and printer's mark by Jost Amman.

8 lvs, 602 lvs., 62 lvs (Index)

Original blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards. Back cover detached, is replacement used the cover of other early bible .

Lacks clasps. One of the metal corner pieces on the front cover is missing.  Back cover doesn't have any corner pieces.

Some toning, colophon page with damages

Good interior condition

Text in Latin
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Jost Amman (June 13, 1539 – March 17, 1591) was a Swiss-German artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations.






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