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Publication Date: 1779
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
SPANGENBERG, AUGUST GOTTLEIB. Idea Fidei Fratrum oder kurzer Begrif der Christlichen Lehre in den evangelischen Brudergemeinen. Barby: Christian Friedrich Laux, 1779. 592 p. Contemporary calf. Hinges worn and with short splits but still strong, front binder's blanks wanting, foxing, light dampstain in lower right corner through much of text. A good copy. Signature of John G. Steinbeck, 1801, on title. First edition of the system of fundamental beliefs of the Moravian Church. Spangenberg (1704-1792) was the successor to Count Zinzendorf and bishop of the Moravian Brethren.