Theology - Bibles Melantrich from Aventin, Georg Biblia Bohemica. - Biblij Czeska, to gest, wssecka Swata Pijsma, obogijho, Stareho y Noweho zakona. With title woodcut (fragment), 3 full-page woodcuts. Woodcuts of coats of arms (Imperial, Prague, Bohemia, of which 1 fragment), 3 full-page woodcuts. Woodcut borders, 1 fulls. Woodcut printer's mark and c. 140 (17.5 x 12.5 cm) large text woodcuts by Hans Severin and others, as well as numerous cut. Initals, often with figure decoration. Title page in red and black print. Prague, Melantrich, 1570. 7 pp. (additional ins.), 665 pp. (11 pp. (v. 12: sign. *6 A6 (p. *v and p. Avi missing, last inserted as 17th cent. copy), num. Leaves 1-558, 4 nn. leaves (sign. A4), pp. 559-637, 17 nn. leaves (1 w. leaf, sign. Z6, *6, 4 n. pag. leaves) 2°. Hardcover, circa 1900, on wooden boards over 5 false bindings with blind-stamped titles, fillets and frame ornaments, 4 embossed corner mounts and 2 brass clasps, marbled endpapers and three-sided spine. Marble endpapers and three-sided. Red edges. Rare third, newly and exquisitely illustrated Melantrich Bible edition. - Graesse I, 371 - Nagler, G. K. Monogrammisten II, 2514 - Volf, J. Geschichte des Buchdrucks in Böhmen und Mähren, p. 54 - Pesek, J. Melantrich, p. 32 - Third edition, expanded by an index of 15 leaves and equipped with a completely new set of woodcuts, which also contains the only known portrait of Melantrich in the title woodcut. The definitive edition of one of the great works from the printing house of Melantrich, who "brought the highest fame to Czech book printing". (Volf). - Nagler attributes the woodcuts with the monogram "F" to an unknown draughtsman who worked for Hans von Francolin's tournament book published in Vienna in 1560 and who lived in Prague in 1570. - Provenance: Vaclav Wlach z Hronova, with his purchase note dated 1896, as well as extensive, neatly calligraphed notes, among others on Melantrich, the scholar Bohuslav Balbin and the Counter-Reformation, on 7 pre-bound leaves - Some leaves with marginalia in Czech, some text passages blackened in ink by an old hand, these with loss in places due to ink erosion. - Leaf *v missing, leaves *1r and *1v only present in (large) fragments, the same backed. Bl. Avi bound as a 17th-century clean copy. - Missing pagination on pp. 144, 293-296, 410, 570, 577ff. pp. *ii to *iv and pp. 637-654 as well as a few other leaves with losses in the margins, in a few cases with loss of text, these backed. A few leaves with burn holes. Margins partly closely trimmed, partly with minor loss of text. Paper browned. Margins of leaves often somewhat finger-stained, soiled and occasionally slightly foxed. Overall, despite the flaws, a collectible copy of this "Biblia Bohemica" due to the rarity and historical importance of the edition. Theology. - Bibles. - {With title wood-cut (fragment), 3 full-size wood-cuts of coats of arms (Imperial, Prague, Bohemia, of which 1 fragment), 3 full-paged pictorial wood-cut borders, 1 fulls. wood-cut printer's mark and c. 140 (17.5 x 12.5 cm) large text wood-cuts by Hans Severin and others, as well as numerous cut initials, often pictorial. Title page in red and black print}. - Graesse I, 371 - Nagler, G. K. Monogrammisten II, 2514 - Volf, J. Geschichte des Buchdrucks in Böhmen und Mähren, p. 54 - Pesek, J. Melantrich, p. 32 - {Rare 3rd, newly and exquisitely illustrated Melantrich Bible edition, extended by an index of 15 leaves and equipped with a completely new set of woodcuts. The book also contains the only known portrait of Melantrich in the title woodcut}. - Definitive edition of one of the great works from the Prague printing house of Melantrich, who 'brought the highest fame to Czech book printing'. (Volf). - Nagler attributes the drawings for the wood-cuts with the monogram 'F' to an unknown artist who worked for Hans von Francolin's knight's tournament book published in Vienna in 1560 and who lived in Prague in 1570. - {Provenance:} Vaclav Wlach z Hronova, with his purchase note dated 1896, as well as his extensive, neatly calligraphed notes, including on Melantrich, the scholar Bohuslav Balbin and the Counter-Reformation, on 7 pre-bound leaves. - Some leaves with marginalia in Czech, some text passages blackened in ink by an old hand, these with faults in places due to ink erosion.- Leaf *v missing, leaves *1r and *1v only present in (large) fragments, the same backed. Leaf avi bound as a neatly calligraphed 17th-century copy.- Missing pagination on pp. 144, 293-296, 410, 570, 577ff. Leaves *ii to *iv and leaves 637-654 as well as a few other leaves with faults at margins, in a few cases with loss of text, these backed. A few leaves with burn holes. Margins partly closely trimmed, partly with minor loss of text. Paper browned. Margins of leaves often somewhat finger-stained, soiled and occasionally slightly foxed. Overall, despite the flaws, a collectible copy of this 'Biblia Bohemica' due to the rarity and historical importance of the edition.