Five Leatherbound Martin Luther Bibles
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Description
including: [Biblia, Das ist Die gantze Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, Nach der Ubersetzung und mit den Vorreden und Randglossen D. Martin Luthers], Tbingen: Cotta, 1730, bound in full leather over heavy wood boards, brass hardware; [Biblia, Das ist Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments, Nach der Leuchten Ubersetzung D. Martin Luthers], Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1763; and three others
Provenance: The Estate of Peter H. Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut
Condition
wear to extremities, scuffs, scratches, and losses to leather, scattered staining, toning, and foxing throughout; 1730 missing leather straps; 1763 missing one clasp, likely in later 18th/19th century rebinding, some scattered tears at page edges; three others in poor condition
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