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Luther, Martin, Der XC. Psalm: Ein Gebet Moysi des Mans Gottes. Außgelegt durch D. Mart. Luth, 1572. Leipzig. Johan. Martroff.
Luther, Martin, Der XC. Psalm: Ein Gebet Moysi des Mans Gottes. Außgelegt durch D. Mart. Luth, 1572. Leipzig. Johan. Martroff.
Luther, Martin, Der XC. Psalm: Ein Gebet Moysi des Mans Gottes. Außgelegt durch D. Mart. Luth, 1572. Leipzig. Johan. Martroff.
Luther, Martin, Der XC. Psalm: Ein Gebet Moysi des Mans Gottes. Außgelegt durch D. Mart. Luth, 1572. Leipzig. Johan. Martroff.

Luther, Martin

Der XC. Psalm: Ein Gebet Moysi des Mans Gottes. Außgelegt durch D. Mart. Luth, 1572. Leipzig. Johan. Martroff.
A new year’s gift from father-in-law to daughter-in-law, with bookplate colored by Georg Mack

First and only Leipzig edition, exceptionally rare, of Luther’s commentary on Psalm 90, beautifully bound for presentation as a New Year’s gift from Andreas II Imhof of Nuremberg – great-grandson of the printer Anton Koberger – to his daughter-in-law Regina, with a splendidly illuminated bookplate and calligraphic inscription by the colourist Georg Mack the Elder.
$ 14,000.00
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8vo, (135 x 80 mm). [183] ff., [1 (blank)]. Each page printed within woodcut border. Contemporary calf over bevelled wooden boards, boards blocked in Zwischgold with wide arabesque plaquette borders and central oval vignettes, on the front board showing a figure kneeling before the Crucifix, on the rear board the Salvator Mundi, spine gilt in compartments, brass clasps to fore-edge, edges gilt and gauffered; a little rubbed at joints, Zwischgold tarnished.


Provenance: engraved armorial bookplate of Andreas Imhoff to front pastedown, hand-coloured and illuminated by Georg Mack (dated 1595 and initialled ‘G M’ in gilt), presentation inscription ‘1595 | Neu Jar |Regina Im Hof | Von ihrem lieben Vat-|ter Endres Im Hof | dem Eltern.’ in brown ink and gilt to front free endpaper.


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