Bidspirit auction | BIBLE. (Hebrew). Arba’ah Ve’Esrim. Printers

BIBLE. (Hebrew). Arba’ah Ve’Esrim. Printers device on title and verso of final leaf (Yaari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks 12). Opening words surrounded by decorative floral and historiated borders. Divisional titles. pp. (2), 3-1179, (17). pp. 19-23 in facsimile, pp. 1069-76 in manuscript. Owners’ inscriptions and library stamp on title. Manuscript mispagination in numerals, Latin running titles in manuscript, Hebrew and Latin marginal notes, one excised on p. 897 not affecting printed text, verse numbers added in Pentateuch, through p. 165. Lightly browned and stained, marginal tape repairs pp. 1-12. Elaborate 16th-century blind tooled vellum with panel portraits of Martin Luther on both covers, each stamped PD, the upper dated 1597. Rebacked. Thick 4to. Vinograd, Basle 45; Darlow & Moule (noted not listed) following no. 5087. Basle, Johann Froben, 1536. The first appearance of Sebastian Muenster’s famed Bible edition. The end-matter includes a printed Latin postscript by Muenster, as well as a list of Haftarot and errata. Most important, is Muenster's list of variant textual readings.