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Biblia, that is the whole Heil. Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, Verdeutscht durch D. Martin Luther. With prefaces, marginal glosses, summaries ... with symbolic engravings ... completed with large script. With Holzschmitt title vignette and 5 fulls. Copper plates. Regensburg, Zunkel, 1754-56. large folio. 7 vols, VIII, 44 p., 2 vols, 1116, 309 p., 5 vols. Blind embossed. Central binding on 6 bands (more heavily scuffed). Biblia germanica Biblia, that is Die ganze Heil. Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, Verdeutscht durch D. Martin Luther. With prefaces, marginal glosses, summaries ... with symbolic engravings ... completed with large script. With Holzschmitt title vignette and 5 fulls. Copper plates. Regensburg, Zunkel, 1754-56. large folio. 7 vols, VIII, 44 p., 2 vols, 1116, 309 p., 5 vols. Blind embossed. Central binding on 6 bands (heavily rubbed). Rare Protestant Bible (not in Darlow-M.). - BMSTC (Compact ed.) 3, 99, 266 - Bibelslg. Württ. Landesbibl. E 1468 (Tl. II) and E 1474 (Tl. I). - Graesse I, 380 - Clean copy of the fine impression with unusually large types. - "The text was printed in particularly large type because many older pastors complained that the Bible text was difficult to read. In order to reduce the price of the Bible, the Cansteiner Bibelgesellschaft had smaller and smaller typefaces cut to make the Bibles smaller and, above all, cheaper. However, people with poor eyesight suffered as a result. With the Zunkel Bible, the opposite approach was taken: the font is particularly large. This resulted in a stately Bible weighing 9 kg!" (Quram Bible edition).

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Biblia, that is the whole Heil. Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, Verdeutscht durch D. Martin Luther. With prefaces, marginal glosses, summaries ... with symbolic engravings ... completed with large script. With Holzschmitt title vignette and 5 fulls. Copper plates. Regensburg, Zunkel, 1754-56. large folio. 7 vols, VIII, 44 p., 2 vols, 1116, 309 p., 5 vols. Blind embossed. Central binding on 6 bands (more heavily scuffed). Biblia germanica Biblia, that is Die ganze Heil. Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, Verdeutscht durch D. Martin Luther. With prefaces, marginal glosses, summaries ... with symbolic engravings ... completed with large script. With Holzschmitt title vignette and 5 fulls. Copper plates. Regensburg, Zunkel, 1754-56. large folio. 7 vols, VIII, 44 p., 2 vols, 1116, 309 p., 5 vols. Blind embossed. Central binding on 6 bands (heavily rubbed). Rare Protestant Bible (not in Darlow-M.). - BMSTC (Compact ed.) 3, 99, 266 - Bibelslg. Württ. Landesbibl. E 1468 (Tl. II) and E 1474 (Tl. I). - Graesse I, 380 - Clean copy of the fine impression with unusually large types. - "The text was printed in particularly large type because many older pastors complained that the Bible text was difficult to read. In order to reduce the price of the Bible, the Cansteiner Bibelgesellschaft had smaller and smaller typefaces cut to make the Bibles smaller and, above all, cheaper. However, people with poor eyesight suffered as a result. With the Zunkel Bible, the opposite approach was taken: the font is particularly large. This resulted in a stately Bible weighing 9 kg!" (Quram Bible edition).

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