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16931Martin Luther King Jr. Original silver gelatin print press photo of MLK at the Illinois Rally for Civil Rights in 1964. Dr. King is pictured holds hands with two clergy forming a human chain of solidarity. Â 7.5 x 10.75 in. Pasted to verso partial original caption from newspaper and information form on figures. "Fr. Theodore Hesburgh Pres. Notre Dame / Martin Luther King Jr. / Msgr Robert J. Hagarty Archdioceses of Chg. at the end of rally." At the time the Illinois Rally was the second largest Civil Rights demonstration with an estimated 57000 to 75000 people joining the event at Soldier Field. This important event demonstrated unity across various branches of Christianity in support of African American's civil rights. Hesburgh was appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by President Eisenhower in 1957 and served on the commission until 1972. Creases to upper right edge affecting image of Hagarty. Dated on verso June 21 1964. Good to very good condition. unknown books
18994990New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press 1899. First edition. First edition. Thick quarto. Original blue fine weave cloth with gorgeous all over gilt blocked cover design by Margaret Armstrong consisting of grapes and grape vine on a trellis also used for spine. This model cover design appears in later Putnam titles Morris Tennyson Emerson Rossettis however in those later uses clumsy lettering by another hand was employed as per Gullans. This is the quite rare first edition of 1899 the only copy on the market as of this date. Two marks are rear cover slight wear to corners and margins of spine. Overall the binding is very good and near fine in the interior. Gullans #61. G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press unknown books
1994291662New York.: John Wiley & Sons. 1994. 1st Edition. Green leatherette gilt titles. Very good tight and unmarked slit in rear pastedown no dust jacket as issued. 25.7x18 cm. weight: 2.9 lb. John Wiley & Sons. hardcover books
196223478Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. 320pp index. Very good hardback in publisher's red cloth; no jacket. <br/><br/> University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
1929120638Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Scholarly look at banking in England. A tight near fine copy with some minor wear to the base of the spine and a tiny sticker shadow to the title page in a very good dust jacket that has some chipping to the spine ends and edges and some other minor wear but otherwise a very presentable copy. Scarce in any jacket. University of Pennsylvania Press unknown books
200138444Albuquerque: New Mexico Book League 2001. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with address label on rear wrapper and small crease along bottom edge. 16 pp. 4to. A 30th Anniversary issue. Includes the usual list of books and reviews in addition to the article by Luther. New Mexico Book League unknown books
1987146788San Jose. : Bender Publishing. 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover pictorial boards. . Very good upper corner bumped no dust jacket as issued. . 8vo. Bender Publishing. hardcover books
1906Embry 180290Dodd Mead & Co. 1906. First printing thus. Minor rubbing to spine tips and corners near fine in custom mylar cover. Color frontis b&w illustrations and pale green decorations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Blue cloth with oval illustrated cover label. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1906. First printing thus. hardcover books
196841039NY:: Burt Franklin. Very Good. 1968. Hardcover. A reprint edition. Very good in red cloth. No dust jacket. . Burt Franklin, hardcover books
190391733New York: J.A. Spoor 1903. paper-covered boards. Lamb Charles and Mary. 8vo. paper-covered boards. xvi 209 1 pages. Published prior to Charles Lamb's death in 1834. One hundred copies only printed from type at the De Vinne Press: Ten copies on Japan paper numbered from 1 to 10. Ninety copies on Van Gelder paper numbered from 11 to 100 of which this is number 66. Bibliography has several illustrations of the Lambs' works as well as portraits of the author. Portraits have tissue guards. Gift note on free front endpaper. Uncut pages corners have been slightly bumped edges have moderate wearspine strip missing replaced with plain paper. J.A. Spoor unknown books
1715WRCLIT66991Cassel i.e. Kassel: In Verlegung Jacob Estienne . 1715. 32630183 leaves evidently lacking a terminal blank. Thick quarto. Contemporary brown calf raised bands spine gilt extra side panels with plain gilt rules a.e.g. gilt decorated floral endsheets. Engraved pictorial extra- title and engraved portrait of Carolus I Landgraf von Hersfeld by Joseph Montalegre. Text in double columns. Crown of spine snagged with resulting tears at crowns of joints a bit rubbed occasional mild tidemarks and light foxing but a good sound copy. An uncommon edition of the Luther Bible with an extended dedication by the publisher to Carolus I Landgraf von Hersfeld and extensive introductory matter on the history of Luther's text. Not in Darlow & Moule and OCLC/Worldcat only locates one copy of an edition under Estienne's imprint dated 1735. In Verlegung Jacob Estienne .. hardcover books
171108253Luneburg: Johann Stern 1711. Large Folio 16 1/2" x 11 1/2". A magnificent pulpit size Bible in contemporary full leather binding with cast bronze corners each showing a different biblical narrative 4 on front board and 4 on rear 4 cast bronze studs for clasps one lacking and a cast bronze figure of Jesus on front board and a cast bronze figure of Moses on the rear board. Printed title and engraved title with frontis for Old Testament both mounted and engraved title with New Testament; large folding BIRD'S EYE VIEW of the Jerusalem 42" x 16 1/2" mounted; double page map of the Holy Land. 42374122521424512 - includes the Apocrypha. Internally clean and bright contemporary note on OT printed title page and small marginal loss to edge obliterating the date 1711. Binding and ropes are strong small loss at spine ends. A very good copy indeed; not in Darlow and Moule. <br/><br/> Johann Stern hardcover books
1711156585Luneburg Germany: Cornelius Johann Stern 1711. Original. Hardcover. Good overall but with badly-torn title page and wrinkling/edge wear to first few preliminary pages. Frontis has been re-backed because of fragility a few tears at edges. Tape repair in one part of gutter. After the first few pages the text is clean and VG but with darkening to page ends when close. The text block is solid. Covers however are soiled and the spine leather is cracking in general and split at head by hinge. Corners have been taped for protection some kind of Scotch tape. Bookplate inside front cover from 1975. Decorative cream velum / boards. 6 raised bands on spine. No title lettering. Numbering is for leaves so actual page # would be double: 19 373 6 251 7 244 6 2. With bw frontis and full-page bw frontis at the beginning of the New Testament. Two-page map of Palestine at back. Heavy at 28 pounds and will require extra postage. Oversize. Text in Old German. Solid copy desite flaws. Cornelius Johann Stern hardcover books
1702D9150Amsterdam: Jacob Lindenberg 1702. Hardcover. Very Good. Large folio 380 x 245mm. Engraved title page with figures of Moses and Christ above oval portrait of Martin Luther enclosed in frame of putti topped with swan all in architectural setting incised with vignettes of Moses receiving the Law Christs Last Supper and Baptism mounted by Apocalyptic Lamb holding open book inscribed with Psalm 40:8-9 and John 5:39. Pagination: 24 1-278 112 70 132 misnumbering common but appears complete. Added pictorial engraved title pages for Old and New Testament. Integral portrait of Adolf Visscher by Jonas Suyderhoef repaired at lower right corner; 4 double-page engraved maps by Romeyn de Hooghe of 1 Orbis per Creationem World at the time of Creation; 2 Palestine and the Levant; 3 Map of the Mediterranean showing Greece Cyprus and Anatolia; 4 Map of the Mediterranean for the Travels of St. Paul; all extra engraved with biblical vignettes or tabernacle implements. Extensively illustrated throughout with 63 full-page and 13 half-page engraved plates nearly all of the full-page plates are with 2 images in vignette form by de Hooghe beginning almost all Bible books including Books of Prophets and Apocrypha. Printed in Dutch in double column. Printed marginalia. Few engraved or woodcut tailpieces. Period diced calf over beveled wooden boards embossed with central interlaced lozenge brass corner pieces and hinges but lacking clasps; edges slightly chipped at beginning overall toned with age some stains some of the maps trimmed close but otherwise clean joints splitting affecting some internal leaves spine with minor loss overall a historical volume with great appeal. An immense biblical tome five inches thick from cover to cover beautifully bound probably for a church or religious institution. Deaccessioned from the Pacific School of Religion but with no markings other than the pictorial bookplate of John Howell Where there is no vision the people perish to front pastedown. <br/><br/>Adolph Visschers Dutch translation of the Luther Bible in period binding. In 1648 Adolph Visscher of the Lutheran Church in Amsterdam revised a previous Mennonite translation of Luthers German Bible. This became the standard Bible or State Bible Statenbijbel of Dutch Lutherans. This 1702 printing is a revision of Visschers Bible translation which was in use occasionally revised until 1951. Illustrated throughout with engravings by Romeyn de Hooghe of the Rubens School the engravings represent some of the most significant for the Dutch book illustrator. This suite of illustrations was bound in a number of different translations and editions of the Bible during this period. Progress in the knowledge of biblical languages as well as the development of biblical refutation increased the demand for new versions of the Dutch Bible In fact a Keur translation of the States Bible appeared this same year. This is a historical state of Visschers Dutch States translation also known as the Lindenberg edition which was in fact a universally accepted Protestant Bible this volume maintaining the four original maps some of the finest to appear in 18th century bibles. Jacob Lindenberg hardcover books
17301300874Tubingen: Johann Georg und Christian Gottsried Cotta 1730. Hardcover. Folio 24 656 pages; VG; bound in contemporary vellum moderate soiling and rubbing to vellum; small bookworm damage to first 20 pages last 10 pages; engraved dedicatory frontispiece signed by Johann Georg Cotta featuring Jesus looking down upon Moses receiving the Ten Commandments; volume ends after Solomon; with four plates including a 2 plate spread of Palestine and a 2 page spread of Jerusalem; See all twelve images for details regarding this title. EH consignment<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office on Netdesk workdesk. 1300874. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Johann Georg und Christian Gottsried Cotta hardcover books
17435689Germantown: Gedruckt bey Christoph Saur 1743. 4to 26.3 cm 10.375". 2 ff. supplied in facsimile 995 1 blank 277 1 pp. 1 f. <br><br>1743 saw the first complete Bible in a European language printed in the New World in of all places Germantown Pa. and in of all languages German. The colonial powers had granted monopolies for Bible printing to "home" publishers and their products were priced sufficiently low to discourage illegal printing by colonial printers which left it to German-Americans a people here as independent settlers not "colonists" to first print a Bible of their own. Christopher Saur or Sower as he Englished it was something of a renaissance man university educated and a physician and he used his connections in Germany to obtain the gift of the fraktur type used in this Bible. It was printed in an edition of 1200 copies and cost 18 shillings. Another complete American Bible did not follow until Saur's son also Christopher published a further edition in 1763.<br>Â Â Â Â Arndt lists three states for this edition of which this appears to be C based on the absence of a two-leaf addendum giving a short history of Bible translation that a buyer could choose to have bound in or not. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Evans 512728; Sabin 5191; Arndt The First Century of German Language Printing in the United States of America 47C; Hildeburn 804; Rumball-Petre Rare Bibles 159; Darlow & Moule 4240; O'Callaghan 22; Wright Early Bibles of America 2444. Contemporary calf over bevelled boards; binding scratched and abraded with tears to spine leather hinges inside open. First two leaves lacking i.e. main title-page and preface and title-page supplied in facsimile. A printed poem has been affixed to the front pastedown over a strip of cloth. Ownership inscriptions in German in gothic cursive and English on endpapers. Pp. 12 with loss of part of margins some text and part of headpiece repaired with paper. Lightly age-toned with darker brown-spotting some waterstaining occasional dog ears and some holing or chipping in the margins some of the latter repaired with paper. The New Testament title-page is present. Gedruckt bey Christoph Saur hardcover books
1828281672Philadelphia: Kimber und Scharpless 1828. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A Luther Bible with 40 "excellent plates" called for of which 39 appear to be present. Some plates are numbered and some are not but the numbered plates appear to skip from plate 30 to plate 32 though there is no evidence of excision With a separate title page for "Das Neue Testament" and a two blank leaves with elaborate borders of "Familien Register"between the testaments. 932 pages; bound in mottled calf with raised bands and morocco label; lacking the leather clasps. Very Good binding. Kimber und Scharpless unknown books
181935752Lancaster Pa.: Johann Bär 1819. Folio 39.5 cm 15.5". Frontis. 5 ff. 100 12 pp. 2 ff. 738 26 pp.; 2 blank ff.; 227 1 92 pp. Lacks plate before the N.T. <br><br>Johann Bär's 1819 German Luther Bible in fraktur type a.k.a. "black letter" was the first complete Bible printed in "Lancaster Penn" and the=> first folio German Bible printed in America: It was an impressive production large in size set on good paper and the type pleasantly laid out and neatly impressed in double-column format. The frontispiece engraved by J. Henry and showing Moses with the tables of the law is appealing.<br>Â Â Â Â In the preliminaries the double-column text includes a brief biography of Luther and an essay by the famous Pietist August Herman Franke 16631727 advising how to read Scripture. The printer was only 19 years old when he undertook this massive project and despite the numerous subscribers listed on five preliminary pages in four-cloumn format he was nearly bankrupted by the enterprise.<br>Â Â Â Â In the upper outer corner of the front pastedown is the large printed binder's label of "Henrich Miller buchbinder in der Ost Dranien Strasse gegeneuber der Lancaster. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â O'Callaghan 146; Shaw & Shoemaker 47206; Arndt & Eck German Language Printing in the U.S. 2363. Contemporary calf over wood boards evidence of metal and leather clasp closures; leather perished joints outside open front board much loosened but holding tenuously and rear board more securely attached. Foxing and brown staining as usual. Lacks the plate opposite the New Testament title-page. A good copy only yet still => a touching "story" and a touchstone American Bible. Johann Bär hardcover books
180527430Reading: Gedruckt und zu finden bey Gottlob Jungmann 1805. 4to. 2 vols. in 1. 34 ff. 1008 pp. 1 f. 277 1 pp. 1 f. family register excised. <br><br>The first edition of the first Bible in German printed outside of Philadelphia; the first printing of the Bible in Reading. The New Testament here has a separate title-page pagination and signatures. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Arndt & Eck German Language Printing in the U.S. 1467; O'Callaghan 7879; Seidensticker 166; Shaw & Shoemaker 7984. Publisher's plain brown calf with remnants of metal and leather closures leather abraded; front board expertly strengthened at joint new front free endpaper. Family register excised. Interior with foxing toning and some staining including to title-page; initial and final leaves with staining and chipping as with all copies we've seen in libraries and in commerce. => All said a solid and satisfactory copy of a famous early American Bible. Gedruckt und zu finden bey Gottlob Jungmann hardcover books
1736156195Nurnberg: Johann Andrei Endters Seel. Erben 1736. Original 1736 Printing. Hardcover. Solid covers. Actual text free of extraneous marks and very clear in printing. Worm bore hole at top 5 inches of spine and worm holes in front cover. The cover is so thick they never made it to the text. Front hinge separating a tad. Stain to top margin of pages in front 2/3 of book. Black staining to page edges wearing off at bottom. Other general wear to covers. Closures missing. One page torn plate on reverse. Frontis and title page soiled and worn at edges. Some soiling perhaps from stove/fireplace fire proximity. A few notations on end papers by former owners one by Anna Muller of Pforzheim Baden Germany in pen in German. Enormous folio with blind-stamped decorative leather over real wood boards with beveled edges. Ornate brass corner pieces 4 on each cover and center medallion . Floridly-lettered title page in red/black Old German with bw illus. at bottom. Bw frontis and 19 additional bw engravings. 7x4-inch bordered bw woodcuts prolific throughout text and decorative wood-cut capital letters. Page edges stained black deliberately. Paginated as follows: 158 pp. 1181 pp. 23 pp. Big heavy doorstop material weighs 13 pounds that will require extra postage. Text in Old German. Includes the Augsburg Confession. The entire actual Bible both testaments is numbered consecutively. The whole title is: Biblia Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrift deß Alten und Neuen Testaments. Wie solche von Herrn Doctor Martin Luther Seel. Im Jahr 1522 in unsere Teutsche Mutter-Sprach zu übersetzen angefangen Anno 1534 zu End gebracht und vor einigen Jahren bereits mit den Summarien Herrn Johann Sauberti Seel. auch mit dem Vielfältigen und Lehrreichen Nutzen über alle Kapitel des Herrn D. Salomon Klassens Seel. Angefertiget unjetzt mit ganz neuen und schönen Kupfer-Bildnissen nebst derenselben beygedruckten Lebens-Läufen auch andern annehmlichen Figuren samt deren kurzen Auslegungen und angehengten Moralien ausgezieret dann von denen vorhin eingeschlichenen Druck-Fehlern auf das fleissigste gereiniget Uber dieses sind nicht allein des seel. Hn. Lutheri und seines Geschlechts warhafte und aus uralten Gemählden genommene Abbildungen und Lebens-Lauf beygefüget sondern auch zu end des ganzen Werks neben den Christlichen Haupt-Symbolis ein kurzer und nützlicher Bericht von der Augspurgischen Consession selbsten wie man sie in dem rechten Original im Jahre 1530 Kayser Carl dem Fünften überantwortet beygedruckt worden Samt einer Vorrede von Herrn Johann Michael Dillherrns. Johann Andrei Endters Seel. Erben hardcover books
17102802Nürnberg: In Verlegung der Johann Andrea Endters Seel Sohn & Erben 1710. Folio 39 cm 15.38". Frontis. 32 ff. 1181 1 pp. 11 -1 ff.; 1 plt. illus. <br><br>Aside from its importance in the religious tradition Luther's translation of the Bible is probably the most important single text for the formation of Modern German. Like other Luther Bibles this one contains his prefaces to the books of the Bible including his theologically significant Preface to the Epistle to the Romans. It is also supplemented by the Augsburg Confession of which sadly the last leaf is absent here.<br>Â Â Â Â In this printing a fine engraved title-page shows an angel delivering Luther's translation of the Old Testament to a Church still in bondage to the requirements of the old Law. A similar sectional title-page depicting God the Father Jesus Christ and allegorical figures of the sacraments of Baptism and Communion comes before the New Testament. Six special pairs of leaves bound in at various places each offer a first page containing an engraving of biblical figures and three following pages containing their biographies. A woodcut vignette of the unusual triple arms of the city of Nürnberg appears on the title-page; a number of chapters are adorned at head with one-third page woodcut illustrations set in neat borders; and the books typically open with typographically appealing two-column "headers." The text is in a handsome and relatively legible fraktur.<br>Â Â Â Â The size decoration and overall composition of the volume along with its faults especially the manner in which which pages are worn suggest a history as a lectern Bible in a Lutheran Church.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: This copy is bound in ornately blind-tooled and -stamped alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards the front cover with three of its original etched corner bosses and with its two etched clasp-catches. Bosses of back cover no longer present remnants of clasps. A martial portrait is centered on each cover; unfortunately these are now so worn that they are no longer identifiable. Perhaps they belong to the electors of Saxony who safeguarded the Lutheran faith in its infancy.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Ownerhship signature of Ludwig Buehl Philadelphia 1852. Binding as above. Covers abraded and worn some scraping to back upper board leather peeling back from fore-edge of front cover and opening at ends of joints most notably at bottom of front one. Front free endpaper with inked ownership note in German dated Philadelphia 1852. Frontispiece with a fore-edge chip not into image and tears in from bottom margin and at gutter with small loss to plate area at bottom inner corner. A number of pages with tears extending into text a few places with chips to bottom outer corners with loss of words but not of sense. Scattered foxing with occasional darker small stains. Last leaf of Confession NOT Bible lacking. => Despite faults a grand volume both usable and inspiring. In Verlegung der Johann Andrea Endters Seel, Sohn & Erben hardcover books
1748D9092Nuremberg: In Verlegung der Johann Andrea Endterischen Handlung Endter MDCCLXVIII 1748. Hardcover. Very Good. Large format folio 424 x 274 x 125mm. 144 740pp. 2 512 480 16pp. Additional engraved title of architectural motif with heraldry of Saxe-Gotha-Altenberg and the flanking figures of Moses and Christ with their attributes in niches below signed by J. C. Clausener. Illustrated with 45 plates including title most of them full-page few double-page engravings depicting biblical scenes and prophet portraits as well as some double-page maps and plans temples and Holy Land maps most illustrations also signed by Clausener. With the rare double-page engraving in rear showing royalty and court members in a large reception hall Bischöffliche oder Fürstliche Saal during the Confessio which took place in Augsburg in 1530 under Charles V. This plate is usually missing. Persons and part of the architecture in hall are indicated on the actual plate with small numbers 1-47 opposite page lists each number with name and title of person depicted and explanations of parts of the architecture. Engraved titles and decorated initials throughout. Text in German. Gothic script. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over beveled boards with brass corner pieces and bosses clasps and catches restored; marginal soiling with age few dampstains or light wear not overwhelming the large work in the least engravings wholly intact with only minor folds or stains only map of Israel with wide marginal tear otherwise an excellent survival. Formerly in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America early clippings of poetical quotations c.1910 found in hinge of first quire. <br/><br/>Endters Kurfürstenbibel of 1748 an influential Luther Bible with exceptional engravings produced by the Gotha court. First published in 1641 under the authorization of Duke Kurfürst Ernst I of Saxe-Gotha. This is the so-called Kurfürstenbibel or Elector Bible because some of the engravings show various Dukes from the 16th and 17th centuries. At the realization of this major project prominent Lutheran theologians such as Johann Gerhard Solomon Glassius and Johann Michael Dilherr among others contributed to the work. This Bible was published with a glossary and added in-text explanations of Luthers original translation for the enlightenment of ordinary people. For nearly two centuries from 1613 to 1792 the successful family of Endter of Nuremberg printed the text of Luthers Bible. Specifically the Kurfürstenbibel was produced from 1641 to 1758 in fourteen editions. Today the large-format folio expenditures are amongst the most commonly encountered family Bibles from the 17th but especially the 18th century. The Gotha courts significant pool of sources as well as favor of the market place in Nuremberg gave rise to such an important project. Large-format and heavyweight in every sense of the word it remains a visually stunning work with its numerous portraits of princes in woodcuts and engravings this Elector Bible treated both theological aspects as well as those of the courtly self-understanding. In Verlegung der Johann Andrea Endterischen Handlung [Endter], MDCCLXVIII hardcover books
1926CNJL743Munich: Bremer Presse 1926-1928 1926. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Simons Anna. One of 365 copies folio size 5 volumes complete in German. An extraordinary publication by the Bremer Press of the "Martin Luther Bible". Translated by Luther directly from the Greek during his enforced sequestration in Wartburg Castle 1521-22 it was first published in 1545 and he continued to edit and refine his translation up to his death the following year. Translating directly from the Greek was a marked departure for the academics of the day who relied on the Latin Vulgate translation and used Latin for their studies with Greek seldom used or even taught. <br/><br/>Luther chose to translate from the Greek into the vernacular German language of the day making the scriptures accessible to everyday people and at the same time providing a vehicle for a more unified German language. The Bremer Press known for its interrelation of scholarship type design and book design has provided a version of the Luther Bible edited by Professor Carl von Kraus 1868-1952 Professor of German Philology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. n. b. above info from Wiki and Ransom.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Set of five volumes complete; Volume I: Die Bucher Mose; Volume II: Das Ander Teil des Alten Testaments; Volume III: Das Dritte Teil des Alten Testaments; Volume IV: Die Propheten; and Volume V: Das Neue Testament. The text is continuous with no chapter or verse indications save in the bottom margin of each page; each book of text is delineated with its own sectional title page each opens with a four- or five-line initial capital letter designed by Anna Simons. This set is bound in ivory tinted boards with the single word "Biblia" in gilt on the front black leather spines double raised bands single gilt rule at the head and tail "Biblia" and the volume number in gilt; top edges gilt fore- and bottom edges rough-cut; endpapers of light tan laid paper; in the style of the Bremer Press as with the Doves Press the interior is free of illustration or ornamentation the focus is on the integrity of design of the type and the overall work. Folio size almost 14" tall with the volumes unpaginated printed on Zanders hand-made paper special black-letter cut for this edition. Limited edition of 365 copies per Ransom with each volume in this set numbered differently Vol. I unnumbered Vol. II - no. 56 Vol. III - no. 142 Vol. IV - no. 300 and Vol. V - no. 289. All text in German.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine as new the set appears never to have been used. Each volume has a strong square text block solid hinges perfectly straight corners with no rubbing the interiors are clean and bright and all volumes are entirely free of prior owner markings. The slipcases are very good with overall minor soiling and edgewear one of the five has a single split seam approximately 3 inches long.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Ransom Bremer Press no. 36.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that due to the size and weight of this set additional postage will apply; we are happy to ship at cost to both domestic and international addresses please contact us for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Bremer Presse [1926-1928] hardcover books
176636853Halle: Waysenhaus 1766. 4to 22.2 cm; 8.75". 10 2 1079 1 308 4 pp. <br><br>This Bible was specifically designed and printed for the reader to annotate: the pages measure 8.5" x 6.75" and the text area only 5.5" x 2.875" leaving 1.5" to 2.25" of margin for notes on either side and 1" in the upper margin with 2" in the lower. => An early owner did just that not heavily but here and there in both the Old and New Testaments. It was owned by a member of an American scholarly and clerical family that had not one but two generations of association with the city of Halle which was a mecca and fount of the Pietism that drove so much of the early German religious migration to America.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Signature of G. Henry Muhlenberg dated 1784 on the front free endpaper; later ownership signature of Jacob Strein 1814 on same. Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg 17531815 was the son of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg one of the founders of the German Lutheran church in the U.S. and a pastor of Pietist background whose first post after completing his studies was a teaching position at the Francke Foundation's Historic Orphanage of which the Waysenhaus that printed this volume was the working press. His son born in Trappe PA and recorded above as owner of this book was sent to be educated in Halle starting in 1763 entering the University in 1769. After his return to Pennsylvania in 1770 he was ordained a Lutheran minister and later received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Princeton University while becoming known as a significant American botanist; in 1787 he was made the first president of Franklin College now Franklin & Marshall College. Strein was a fellow Lancaster County pastor.<br>Â Â Â Â => Of this scholar-serving production of this scholarly press in its hyper-scholarly city we find but three library copies reported all in Germany. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 4251. Contemporary plain brown calf rebacked original spine retained with modest ruling at cover edges rubbed and abraded with offsetting to edges of first and last leaves from the leather; round plain spine with five raised bands and no label leather lost at top and bottom with rear joint opening and leather wanting to peel over spine generally. A little foxing with in a few signatures a bit more than that. => A good overall solid and clean copy of a Bible having multiple points of significance. Waysenhaus hardcover books
181935804Lüneburg: Der Sternschen Buchdruckerey 1819. Octavo. Full dark brown leather all edges yellow. 1f. title printed in black and red 9ff. Vorrede 1156 Old Testament 323 New Testament 9 Index pp.<br/><br/>Binding somewhat worn and rubbed; spine slightly defective. Very minor scattered foxing. 1819 issue of Ebeling's 1760 edition of Luther's Bible. Der Sternschen Buchdruckerey unknown books
