Folio (356 x 229 mm). Woodcut illustrations in text throughout (some intermittent spotting, contents washed.) IN 20TH CENTURY MODELED AND INCISED CALF depicting a hunter on horseback blowing a horn towards the sky with the binder's initials etched into a shield in foreground with elaborately-tooled brass corner guards, brass clasps, and central brass arabesque on rear board.

The last of six editions of Luther's Bible produced between 1711 and 1750 by Cornelius Johann Stern, one of the most prominent publishers working in Lüneburg at the time. In addition to the Bible this text includes the Augsburg Confession, which would become the primary confessional document of the Lutheran movement, and in-text illustrations created by artist and goldsmith Jakob Mores of Hamburg; these illustrations would first appear in the Wolder Bible of 1596. Of the binder, Ernst Rückert, precious little is known; only one other example of his binding, an incunabular edition of Werner Rolewinck's Fasciculus Temporum, has been located. Not in Darlow & Moule.