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100 Years: The Kindig Collection - Session Two

Fri, Feb 9, 2024 09:00AM EST
Lot 688

Ausbund, Das ist: Etliche Schone Christliche...

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Ausbund, Das ist: Etliche Schone Christliche Lieder, Christoph Saur, Germantown, 1742, first American edition, 812 numbered pages of songs, followed by a six-page Register, a twenty-page Confessio, and a forty-six-page Ein Warhafftiger Bericht, Von den Brudern im Schweitzerland, in dem Surcher Sebiet. Songbook of hymns composed in the dungeon of Passau Castle by imprisoned Anabaptists in the 16th c. Previous European editions were published illegally and anonymously until the 1742 American edition, a sign of religious freedom for Anabaptists in America, 6" x 3 3/4".

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Condition

Missing clasps, some staining, foxing, some losses to spine, original cover, pages 407-438 beginning to come loose.

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