Johann (1748) Böhm Sold at Auction Prices

[AMERICAN IMPRINT - FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN] Des Hocherleuchteten Theologi. Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin and Johann Bohm, 1751...

[AMERICAN IMPRINT - FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN] Des Hocherleuchteten Theologi. Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin and Johann Bohm, 1751. Contemporary sheep, untooled and with metal clasps (leather portion of clasps lacking) conforming to Miller's first binding. 7 x 4 1/4 inches (18 x 11 cm); )(^(8) )(^(8) A-4M^(8) 4N-4T^(4) 4U^(2) (lacking leaves A1, D8, Z8-Aa1, Bbb2, Bbb8, Hhhh8). With 60 of 64 inserted plates (lacks portrait of Arndt, retains the David and Goliath plate). Worn with stains, tears and edgewear, early repairs, some signatures sprung, covers rubbed with tear to headcap, sold with all faults. Miller describes this massive work "one of the great publishing feats of the colonial American German press and a monument to the short lived partnership of Franklin and Johann Bohm" (Miller p. 280). The subscription, completed in June of 1749, totaled 511 copies and the finished book, complete with engravings ordered from Germany, was published two years later in the late spring of 1751. Evans 6630; Miller 520. C