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Hardcover. Condizione: Very good+. Later edition. Three parts, folio (17 3/4 x 12"). [4: engraved title; main title], [12: Preface to the 1736 Second Edition], [2: Note to the Christian Reader on this New 1768 Edition], [16: Preface to the 1640 (i.e., 1641] Edition], [2: List of Saxony's Electors] pages, 11 (full-page engraved portraits of the Electors), [1: full-page portrait of Martin Luther] leaves, [8: Short Introduction and Instruction Regarding the Holy Scriptures], [2: Calendar], [13: General Index], [26: Name Index], [11: Chronology], [1: Personalities in the Maccabean and Herodian Eras], [7: Explanations on the Old Testament], [5: Charts of calandars, weights, money, measures, and distance in biblical times], [4: Chronological Order of the Books of the Bible], [7: Register/Table of the Old Testament], [3: Martin Luther's Preface to the Old Testament]; 740 (Pentateuch; Former Prophets; Writings); 512 (Latter Prophets and Apocrypha); 472 (New Testament), 473-480 (Gospel Harmony), [14: Creeds and Augsburg Confession] pages. Text in German, Gothic script; text within ruled borders, marginal column for printed side notes; woodcut initials and ornaments; elaborate woodcut half titles in imitation of calligraphy at verso of initial text leaves for the second and third parts (Prophets and New Testament). Complete with 48 copperplate engravings: 12 full-page portraits in the preleminaries (Electors and Martin Luther); a full-page depiction of the construction of Noah's Ark; 27 full-page sectional illustrations (20 vignette compositions; 9 portraits of Prophets and Evangelists); 8 double-suite plates (biblical lands from Egypt to Babylonia; Egypt and Canaan, noting tribal allotments; Canaan in the New Testament era; Greece and Asia Minor, with vignettes of the Temple; encampment of the Israelite tribes in the wilderness; bird's eye view of Jerusalem after Adrichem; view of Jerusalem in the New Testament era; Diet of Augsburg, with legend). Contemporary calf (lightly rubbed at extremities, with some light scratching at rear board), elaborately tooled in gilt, depicting a neo-classical sanctuary on both boards,Tetragrammaton in pediment on the front, a cross in pediment on the rear; exquisite gauffered fore-edges ornamented in gilt against forest green wash depict a sunburst with architectural motifs; gilt turn-ins. Rebacked, retaining original spine; endpapers renewed. 15 cm clean tear through text at leaf C4 in the New Testament (reparable); final text leaf chipped at bottom edge (not affecting text); tears at Diet of Augsburg plate and final text leaf expertly repaired at versos. Overall pages crisp and fresh, with mild intermittent toning, very occasional light stains and smudges, and just a touch of damptstain at fore-edge in later leaves of the New Testament. A very good copy, with clean plates, in a beautiful magnificent binding, complete with the folding plate of the Diet of Augsburg (often lacking). Housed and protected in a modern custom red cloth slipcase. Final edition of the sumptuously illustrated Kurfürstenbibel (Electors' Bible), with a full apparatus of introductory and historical materials. Also known as the Weimar Bible, it was compiled under the auspices of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg. Beginning in 1641, all editions were published by the prominent German printing dynasty of Endter. The maps, views, and illustrated divisional titles by Jacob van Sandrart and others made their first appearance in the edition of 1686. In this latest version, the illustrated sectional titles are signed by Johann Chrisopher Claussner, and most of the other views lack the signatures found in the 1686 edition. The earlier forewords by Salomon Glass (ed. 1641) and Ernst Solomon Cyprian (ed. 1736) are reprinted in the present edition. The preliminaries feature eleven full page engravings of Saxony's Electors, from Friedrich III to Bernhard der Große, followed by an engraved portrait of Martin Luther. Often lacking, the final fold-out engraving depicts the Holy Roman Emp. …