* The full tax is charged on this item marked * in the auction catalogue, i.e. VAT is charged on the sum of the bid price plus the surcharge for those items. The VAT will be refunded to Purchasers providing a validly stamped export declaration.'Biblia germanica - Biblia, That is: All the books of the Heil. Schrift Des Alten und Newen Testaments [...] jetzund aufs new verteutscht: [...] Durch Johann Piscator. 2 volumes. With engraved title. Title and 2 woodcut title vignettes. Bern, Andreas Huguenet, 1684. folio (41.5 × 28 cm). [20] vols, 634 p., [1] w. Leaf; 247, 184, 298 pp. Neatly restored leather bindings of the period with blind-stamped spine labels (these with small losses in the margins). VD17 23:231092Z - Darlow/M. 4214a. - First edition printed in Bern of the Piscator Bible, the third complete German translation of the Bible. The translation, first published in Herborn in 1602, was compiled from a Reformed perspective and was strongly rejected by Lutherans in particular. In Bern, it became the binding "state Bible" with this edition. Our copy with the features of the rare special edition: "Of the approximately 5000 copies in folio, 100 were printed on better paper and 60 on pure white paper. The main title page of these special editions of a total of 160 copies intended for members of the council and authorities was printed in red and black, and the title page of the New Testament bears the Thormann signet with the monogram GT, while the main edition shows the heraldic bear." (U. Joerg and D. M. Hoffmann. Die Bibel in der Schweiz, Basel 1997, p. 228). - Some foxing throughout, flyleaf of the second volume with hs. Ownership note in biros. These objects marked with * (asterisk) are fully subject to VAT, i.e. VAT is charged on the hammer price plus premium. Buyers who present a legally stamped export declaration will be reimbursed the VAT.