Biblia. Das ist Die gantze Heilige Schrift Teutsch. D. Mart. Luth. - 1566

“Bible This is, The whole Holy Scriptures/ German. Dr. Martin Luther. Together with a register, summaries over all chapters and fine engravings” 1566.

Very rare three-part Luther Bible, with 3 woodcut title borders and numerous beautiful woodcuts.

Printed in Frankfurt am Main by Johannes Wolf.

VD16 B 2765

In the Bible there is a later, additionally bound full-page copper engraving from the Endter Bible edition of 1643.

Bound in a blind stamped boar leather binding. This is somewhat rubbed. The front cover and the spine have separated from the spine block.
With two clasps, which no longer work. The corners are bumped and the leather loosens slightly at the top and bottom from the wood.

The pages have been cut back somewhat.
They are consistently browned and have some stains, which are somewhat more noticeable in places.

Occasionally there are tears in the lower area, and there are a few occasional insertions and reinforcements.

The first 7 unnumbered leaves are very loose and show corner and edge wear, with some tears and small defects, mostly without loss of text. The last pages also have some tears as well as edge wear and are slightly loose.

Unnumbered leaves 1-2 and 5-7 at the beginning, as well as leaf 332 and 338 in the second part are loose.
The second title is loose.

The numbered second leaf in the first part has a lower corner tear.
Leaf 201 in the second part has added defects in the lower area, with text loss.
Also a leaf of the index has a lower corner addition with some text loss.
A non-numbered leaf at the beginning and at the end is missing.

Collation: 17 (instead of 18) leaves, CCCI numbered leaf, numbered leaves I-CC, 1 leaf, numbered leaves CCI-CCCXLIII (=CCCXLII), 7 (instead of 8) leaves

Dimensions: 33.5 x 21.5 cm