[Rarebooks] FS: Dated "1577" German pigskin binding of the Psalms of David

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(BIBLE, O.T., PSALMS, LATIN) IN PSALMOS DAVIDIS, Regis ac Prophetae, 
Paraphrasis Heroicis Versibus Expressa a Johanne Maiore [Johann Major]. Wittenberg: 
(colophon: Typis Cratonianis). 1574. (colophon: 1577). 8vo. (4),156;(160)pp. 
Woodcut device on title and large woodcut device on verso of colophon. Cont. 
blind tooled pigskin, dated “1577” with the initials, “M.S.R.” The roll tools 
along the border have portraits of Luther, Erasmus, Huttich and Melanchthon. The 
covers are rather rubbed and with an old stain to a part of the front cover. 
Free endpapers lacking. With the contemporary signature of M. Stephanus Roth, 
and a later signature of Christianus Daum, 1639.     $650.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
Apparently all copies have a title page dated 1574 and date 1577 in the 
colophon. See VD 16, #B3230. Adams M234.

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