Biblia Germanica - Die Bibel Das ist: Alle Bücher der heiligen Schrift des alten und neuen - 1772

Biblia Germanica

The Bible This is: All the Books of the Entire Holy Scripture

Of the Old and New Testament

They bid for a rare edition from the publishing house of David Gessner Gebrüder and Orell,Gessner,Fützlin und Compagnie (Zurich) from the year 1772. Bound in a blind-embossed pigskin leather binding laid over wooden boards, without a book clasp and with 8 (of 10) clasps.

Collation: 8 (of 10) leaves, 415 pages, 160 pages, 108 pages, 188 pages, 2 leaves (of preliminaries bound in at the end).

CONDITION: Good copy with signs of wear, inner hinge slightly cracked, inner hinges reinforced, first leaf and last leaves with marginal wear, consistently a bit foxed and slightly water-stained. Cover rubbed, scuffed and one clasp somewhat damaged.