1788 BIBLE in GERMAN ILLUSTRATED antique MASSIVE PIGSKIN BOUND FOILIO

Biblia, das ist: Die ganze Heilige Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments. 

( The entire Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments)

 Nuremberg, Endter ; 1788.

Large massive folio: 10 by 15.5 inches

 With 2 repeated engraved frontispieces, 11 (instead of 12) full-length portrait engravings and 6 full-length text engravings, as well as numerous text woodcuts.

47 (instead of 48) leaves, 1181 pages, 11 leaves

Original blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards.

Lacks clasps,  covers warped, soiled

- Jahn p. 141. Oertel p. 103. Bibelslg. Wurtt. Landesbibl. E 1671 - 

Dilherrn Bible, with the re-engravings of the Elector portraits by J. C. Laussner used since the 1765 edition.

Browned throughout, some stains, minor damages

Text in German
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