New Testament, German.- Luther (Martin) Das neuw Testament recht grüntlich teutscht, collation: A-C4 D-E2 F4 B-Z6 Aa-Gg6 Hh8, title within ornate figurative woodcut border, 27 woodcut illustrations by Hans Holbein the younger, ink ownership inscriptions to title foot, occasional ink notes in German to margins in early hand (slightly trimmed), A2-4 reinforced at gutter, a few marginal tears (generally small, but L1 affecting text), some damp-staining and soiling, upper hinge broken but stitching holding firm, 17th century binding using an earlier vellum leaf from a choir book (likely 15th century), paper label to spine head, extremities rubbed, remains of leather ties, within modern slip-case, folio (299 x 200mm.), Basel, Adam Petri, 1523. *** Luther's ground-breaking vernacular translation of the New Testament was first published by Lotter of Wittenberg in September 1522. Following swiftly on, in December, Adam Petri issued the first non-Wittenberg edition and a further two folio editions in early 1523. Some discrepancy surrounds the primacy of these two folio editions, issued with variant collations and illustrations for Revelation; the present copy bears the colophon dated 1522 but the title with "zum anderen mal...1523" [for the second time], and the same woodcut illustration of St John as Evangelist and author of Revelation.Provenance: I. ?Jacob Heinrich Petri the younger [title foot], possibly a member of the Basel Petri or Henricpetri family, thus a late relative Adam Petri himself. II. Basel University Library [ink stamp title verso].Literature: Pietsch II, 12a; VD16 B 4324.