Two magnificent dated Bindings by Jakob Krause, the most important German bookbinder of the Renaissance, for Hans Harrer and his wife on a Bible adorned with delicately coloured Woodcuts
Heribert Tenschert16th century, Bible, Jakob Krause, Hans Harrer, Hans Brosamer, Johann Teufel, Binding, Illumination, Coloured, Woodcuts, Martin Luther
Goethe’s Dissertation: By far the rarest of all his First Editions – Unique Copy: uncut and unopened
Heribert Tenschert16th century, Bible, Hans Holbein, Andreas Cratander, Jean Picard, Morocco binding, Mosaic Binding, Inlaid Binding, Painted Binding, Jean Grolier
The Celebrated “Ship of Fools” by Sebastian Brant, with more than 70 Woodcuts by Albrecht Duerer
Heribert Tenschert16th century, Bible, Hans Holbein, Andreas Cratander, Jean Picard, Morocco binding, Mosaic Binding, Inlaid Binding, Painted Binding, Jean Grolier
One of the finest grolieresque Bindings of the 16th Century: Cratander Bible, painted and gilt by Jean Picard c. 1540-45
Heribert Tenschert16th century, Bible, Hans Holbein, Andreas Cratander, Jean Picard, Morocco binding, Mosaic Binding, Inlaid Binding, Painted Binding, Jean Grolier
One of four copies printed on parchment of the monumental Luther Bible 1561, a Gift of Elector August of Saxony in the original bindings: the only copy to appear in the market in 450 years
Plantin’s 1583 Bible with close to 100 Engravings in the largest Fanfare Binding in existence