Lot 361
Live veiling
Die Bibel oder die Heilige Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments.
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Wandsbeck, G. W. Seitz, 1887
Folio: [8]-52-986 pp. (column 82 torn out).
Contemp. blind-decorated calf by W. Collin Kgl. Hofbuchbinder, covers orn. with embossed floral border and embossed cross within gilt central element, spine with 4 raised bands, metal catch and orn. cornerpieces, velvet endpapers, a.e.g. (clasp missing).
Elaborately decorated Luther bible illustrated with 100 chromolith. plates and an unique chronicle of family Gericke on the first 52 pp. with ms. entries.
Prov. Wilhelm Gericke (dedication).