BIBLE, in German -- [Biblia: das ist; die gantze heilige Schrift]. Wittemberg: Hans Lufft, 1541. Part II only (of 2), 2° (375 x 247mm). Title within large historiated woodcut border, woodcut illustrations, including one full-page, woodcut initials (margin of first and last few leaves quite frayed, title soiled and detached, inner margin trimmed with short tears affecting image, small wormholes at beginning and end, partly affecting text, marginal waterstaining throughout, a few margins damstained, lightly browned and lightly spotted). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards (vellum frayed and torn away at extremities and head and tail of spine, soiled and rubbed, lacking clasps).  Adams B1170.
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BIBLE, in German -- [Biblia: das ist; die gantze heilige Schrift]. Wittemberg: Hans Lufft, 1541. Part II only (of 2), 2° (375 x 247mm). Title within large historiated woodcut border, woodcut illustrations, including one full-page, woodcut initials (margin of first and last few leaves quite frayed, title soiled and detached, inner margin trimmed with short tears affecting image, small wormholes at beginning and end, partly affecting text, marginal waterstaining throughout, a few margins damstained, lightly browned and lightly spotted). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards (vellum frayed and torn away at extremities and head and tail of spine, soiled and rubbed, lacking clasps). Adams B1170.

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BIBLE, in German -- [Biblia: das ist; die gantze heilige Schrift]. Wittemberg: Hans Lufft, 1541. Part II only (of 2), 2° (375 x 247mm). Title within large historiated woodcut border, woodcut illustrations, including one full-page, woodcut initials (margin of first and last few leaves quite frayed, title soiled and detached, inner margin trimmed with short tears affecting image, small wormholes at beginning and end, partly affecting text, marginal waterstaining throughout, a few margins damstained, lightly browned and lightly spotted). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards (vellum frayed and torn away at extremities and head and tail of spine, soiled and rubbed, lacking clasps). Adams B1170.
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