(Prospectus) Allgemeine, Wohlfeile Volks-Bilderbibel Oder die Ganze Heilige Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments

Leipzig: Baumgartner, 1852. 4 page bifolium issue of a German prospectus (OCLC reports only two German libraries have a copy of the issued Bible). An early German prospectus with the text of Matthew 17 but an engraving of Delilah holding a sleeping Sampson in her lap while another woman cuts his hair, with awaiting Philistine waiting for the deed to be done. A small engraving shows Samson knocking apart the pillars for their temple and killing the multitude on verso is an engraving of Jesus feeding the 5,000. Fragile but the copy is in good condition with a tiny note on page two that it was printed in Altenberg. The notice is fascinating since it notes that it is indeed a prospectus but implies the actual version will be printed on far better paper. It notes that it is printed as Stereotyp-Pract-aus. [OCLC: 986785185]. It is, of course, a German Bible based on Martin Luther's translation though the same publisher in 1838 issued a Vulgate Bible [see OCLC: 632301254] small piece from corner ton away not affecting text, a few spots of foxing. A very good copy.