1585 BIBLE ILLUSTRATED Jost Amman & Virgil Solis BIBLIA SACRA antique PIGSKIN

Biblia Sacra:
ad optima quaeque Veteris et Vulgatae
translationis exemplaria summa diligentia, parique fide castigata. Cum Hebraicorum, Caldaeorum & Graecorum nominum interpretationee. Accesserunt Indices copiosissimi. And: Omnes, cum Libris machabaerum & nouo Jesu christi Testamento.

Part I and II in 1 volume  (Old and New Testaments)

Frankfurt am Main, Peter Fabricius für S. Feierabend, Heinrich Tack und Peter Fischer, 1585

7 lvs. 423 lvs, 310 numbered leaves, 1 leaf

With woodcut title,  final vignette and 196 text woodcuts by Jost Amman and Virgil Solis.

Size 5.5 by 7.5" (18x11.5cm.)

Blind tooled pigskin binding over wooden boards with portraits of Luther and Melanchthon , manuscript title on the spine, 


– Rare edition of Jost Amman’s Octave Picture Bible, first published in 1571. 

– Title with overlined handwritten ownership entry.

Reinforced front inner joint, some toning, staining.
With handwritten ownership notes and bookplate on the front pastedown

Text in Latin
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