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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Der Prophet Jesaia deudsch.

Accession number
PML 77145.1
Published
Erfurt : Melchior Sachse, 1528.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of John H. Loudon, 1981.
Notes
Signatures: A-I⁸.
Woodcut title-page and initials.
Name of printer from colophon, "Gedrucktt zu Erffurdt durch Melcher Sachsen zu der Archa Noe."
Title-page woodcut with "Wittenberg 1528."
Translated into German by Martin Luther. Cf. VD 16.
Not in Benzing.
German inscription on rear fly leaf, 1554.
Description
[72] leaves : woodcuts ; 15 cm (4to)
Provenance
William Bayne's catalogue, London, 1831, lot 1050; Robert Hale of Alderley, bookplate; W. A. Stewart, sticker; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of John H. Loudon, Christie's, 25 September 1981, lot 108, via L.C. Harper.
Binding
Sixteenth-century blind-stamped leather over wooden boards, two clasps wanting; rebacked.
Classification
Department