Tübingen (Allemagne)

First edition illustrated with 36 steel engravings outside the text by Wilhelm Von Kaulbach, including 17 engraved by Rudolfe Rahn, 17 by Adrian Scheich, one by Steifendand and one last unsigned. One engraved half-title. Text within a border. Gothic typeface. Head- and tailpieces. Not only do the engravings approach perfection, but Kaulbach's animal compositions are among the finest of their kind. The human personification of the animals is indeed highly developed and perfectly staged, one must see the incredible orgy on page 125, the most complete scene of debauchery where intoxication, gluttony and eroticism seize upon the most diverse animals.
Spectacular publisher's binding in full glazed pink calf. Spine decorated with a large plate of interlaced ornaments. Large plate on the upper cover with Renard in armor at the center, conducted on a chariot drawn by griffons and multiple ornaments. White watered endpapers. On the lower cover, a central blind medallion and a wide border with learned interlaced ornamental compositions, in imitation of the first cover. Spine sunned, uniformly lightened. A thin split in the leather at the upper joint at the head extending 0.5cm; the leather is also very narrowly split at the lower joint at the foot extending 3 cm. Traces of rubbing on the edges. Scattered foxing on particularly white paper. This foxing is often concentrated at the location of the tissue guards which remain present. Despite the defects, a very handsome copy.
Goethe wrote his own version of the romance of Reynard in 1794, a collection of medieval texts featuring Reynard the Fox. The term Renard which became established indeed comes from Reineke.

First edition with seven out-of-text plates printed on heavy paper, drawn by Poufsin and executed by Lambert.
Contemporary full red morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with compartments, geometric and floral gilt motifs, dotted and Greek fret gilt frame to boards, fine gilt roll surrounding marbled paper pastedowns, gilt roll on leading edges and headcaps, all edges gilt. Three corners slightly bumped and very minor and marginal worming to a few leaves, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition.
Full smooth blonde calf binding, smooth spine decorated with a red morocco label, compartments and gilt geometric motifs, boards framed with a Bacchic roll, gilt roll to edges and headcaps, all edges gilt.
A small lack to foot of joint, corners slightly bumped and edges rubbed.
The work is illustrated with eight plates.

First edition, illustrated with 8 figures engraved by Delvaux, including two portraits of Me Guizot and Me Perier-Candeille.
Contemporary full red morocco-grained calf binding. Spine with false raised bands decorated with Restoration tools; cold and hot fillets; roulette at head and foot. Fillet frame on boards and large cold-stamped plate with successively a medallion, a diamond and a rectangle, the last two figures with different gauffrages. Edges gilt. Very handsome copy.
Calendar for the year; explanation of chosen tableaux and numerous texts, notably by Desbordes-Valmore, Victor Hugo, Lamartine...

First edition.
Binding of the editor in full cardboard eggplant, smooth back titrated with gold, slight friction in heads and feet of the joints, guards and contreplats of white paper, aubergine head.
A date written in black ink at the foot of the guard on which appears autograph.
Rare autograph dedication dated and signed by Peter Wust in pencil and in German.

Fourth edition.
Binding of the publisher in full yellow cardboard, back of yellow canvas, complete copy of his photographic jacket which has angular deficiencies.
Rare autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated from Hans Speidel, in German, to F. Hilpert.
Hans Speidel was the collaborator of Erwin Rommel for the defense of the Channel coast in 1944 and was involved in the attack of 20 July of the same year against Adolf Hitler.

2 bound volumes
Rare edition of the Latin Protestant bible with St Jerome’s commentaries, specially conceived for the students of the University of Tübingen and more particularly those of the Klosterschulen (or convent schools) in the Duchy of Wurtemberg (this was the first Bible printed in the Duchy).
40 lines per page with repeating initials. One subsidiary title for the Prophets and another for the New Testament, all with printer’s device.
A great many contemporary ink underlinings to text as well as a manuscript list of the prophets on the title of volume two and a summary of the different parts on an endpaper of the first. The typographical elegance of the work is worth mentioning, being remarkably spacious for a Bible: title pages, margins, alternating Roman and italic letter, and so on.
Not in the Bibliothèque Nationale in France as well as the British and Bodleian Libraries and British catalogues; there are, however, several copies in Swiss, Austrian and German libraries. The various bibliographies of Protestant literature make no mention of this edition, no doubt because it follows the text of the Latin Vulgate, whereas the Protestant mission was to retranslate the Greek manuscripts after the example of Erasmus (who did not, however, go over to Luther – despite being asked – though his translation was often used by the Protestant movement).
Contemporary arabesque gilt vellum, the spine gilt-tooled with animal and floral roulettes (hares, birds, foxes, etc.) and fleurons, titled in ink. Covers with several gilt frames and arabesques to corners, as well as a large lozenge-shaped central fleuron. All edges gilt and pricked (forming leaves), revealing contemporary leather bookmarks. The first hundred copies of this bible were bound with the arms of the Duchy of Wurtemberg, with the next four hundred in this binding. The vellum a little stained, with two small angular yellow patches. The gilding mostly tarnished or rubbed.  A few miniscule wormholes to initial leaves of first volume and two small light wormholes to binding of volume two. Light angular dampstaining. Very light scattered spotting.
An attractive copy (despite some small flaws) of this remarkable and historic binding. 
Author of a number of theological commentaries, the Lutheran theologian Johannes Brenz (1499-1570) produced a remarkable Bible which - unlike Luther’s Bible - had only a rather limited circulation (surviving copies are therefore rare). The text it follows is the Latin Vulgate of Wolrab’s Lepizig edition of 1544 (which was itself based on Estienne’s edition of 1540). Brenz was no translator, despite the fact that he was one of the most eminent Bible scholars of the 16^th century, especially among Protestants – alongside Luther, Calvin, and Bullinger. Brenz organized the Church in Wurtemberg, popularizing through his preaching and commentaries the Biblical theology of the Wittemberg group, the source of the Reformation. His Bible was an evangelical tool, unique within the Reformation movement in being based on the text of the Latin Vulgate.
Ex-libris of Paul Schmidt to endpapers.

First edition, illustrated with a title vignette and 6 figures engraved by Lambert after famous paintings. At the end of the work, 12 pages with engraved frames featuring different motifs including astrological signs, one per month; the souvenir section to be filled in by the owner.
Contemporary full straight-grained red morocco binding. Smooth spine decorated in grotesque style with a central radiating tool and scattered stars (the spine evokes Bozerian bindings). Decorative border on covers. Scattered pale foxing, very light. Edges gilt. Very handsome copy.
The almanac contains the calendar for the year and numerous texts by Ducis, Tissot, Fanny de Beauharnais, Boufflers, Berchoux...