1 / 5
Click To Zoom
Lot 93
[FINE PRESS -- BREMER PRESSE]. Biblia Das Ist.  1926-8. FINELY BOUND BY KIESSIG, LIMITED EDTION. 

Estimate
$3,500 - 4,500
Lot Description
[FINE PRESS -- BREMER PRESSE]. Biblia Das Ist: Die Gantze Heilige Schrifft. Munich: Bremer Presse, 1926-1928.

5 volumes, folio. IN A VERY FINE TAN MOROCCO BY WERNER G. KIEßIG with upper covers lettered in blind, top edges in black, others untrimmed; original brown dust jackets; marbled paper slipcases (rubbing, partial splits along slipcase edges of volume I).

LIMITED EDITION, number 175 of 365 copies. The Bremer Presse issued their edition of Biblia Das Ist to mark the 400th anniversary of the completion of the Lutheran Bible. Founded in 1911 by Willy Wiegand and Ludwig Wolde, the Bremer Presse through most of its existence to this point considered the publication of this work to be their highest goal; The finished product combines the talents of master binder Kießig and type designer Anna Simons to create of what bibliographer Jürgen Eyssen wrote,"a better and more textually reliable re-creation of this national monument is hardly conceivable. Eyssen, 88; Ransom, p. 257.
Condition Report
Auction Specialist
Search