BIBLE, German. Biblia, das ist: Die ganze Heilige Schrift. Lancaster: Johann Bär, 1819. 2 parts in one volume, 2 o (377 x 242 mm). 2 engraved frontispieces by Ja. Henry. (Some browing, dampstaining to a few leaves at beginning.) Contemporary American calf by Henrich Miller (minor wear to joints and edges, clasps missing). Provenance : Samuel Longenecker (ownership inscription, dated July 24th 1831) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 July 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941. The first German folio Bible printed in America, in a characteristic Lancaster binding with binder's ticket attached to front pastedown: "Henrich Miller, Buchbinder, In der Ost-Oranien-Strasse, gegenüber der Deutsch Reformirten Kirche, Lancaster." Wright 154.
BIBLE, German. Biblia, das ist: Die ganze Heilige Schrift. Lancaster: Johann Bär, 1819. 2 parts in one volume, 2 o (377 x 242 mm). 2 engraved frontispieces by Ja. Henry. (Some browing, dampstaining to a few leaves at beginning.) Contemporary American calf by Henrich Miller (minor wear to joints and edges, clasps missing). Provenance : Samuel Longenecker (ownership inscription, dated July 24th 1831) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 July 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941. The first German folio Bible printed in America, in a characteristic Lancaster binding with binder's ticket attached to front pastedown: "Henrich Miller, Buchbinder, In der Ost-Oranien-Strasse, gegenüber der Deutsch Reformirten Kirche, Lancaster." Wright 154.
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