Erasmus Weichenhan (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 8, 784, [1] pages; Full bound in sheep leather, probably original. Clasps missing. Contents clean except for brief staining from some sort of foil laid in. Binding solid.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 4to, contemp calf; expertly and handsomely restored. Lacking free endpapers, mostly marginal dampstaining. Complete. Arndt 803; Evans 23975.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. First American Edition. Thick royal 8vo; [8], 785, [3] pages; The Schwenkfelders were an Anabaptist group. Original publisher's binding . Contents good with light aging. Front gutter cracked but firmly affixed. Nice copy. Old newspaper picture of a nobleman glued inside front cover with cyptic comment.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. First American Edition. Thick royal 8vo; [8], 785, [3] pages; The Schwenkfelders were an Anabaptist group. Original publisher's binding . Contents good with light aging. Covers uncracked and firmly affixed. Very nice copy. A few moderate water stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Quarto. [8], 785, [3]pp. Contemporary mottled calf with the original clasps and catches. Front joint partially cracked at head of spine, lacking both free endpapers, title page and first few text pages moderately toned, a few scattered small stains, very good overall, with both clasps fully functional. A well-preserved copy in the original binding, printed at Germantown in Philadelphia.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. [18th century Pennsylvania Binding, Germantown Imprint] Bound by Christopher Hoffmann in contemporary brown calf over wooden boards. Blind ruled, coner fleurons, brass corner bosses. Lacking clasps. 4to, 21 x 17 cm. All edges red. [viii]. 785, [3] pp. "This work, which was first, posthumously, printed in 1672, reflects the religious views of the Schwenkfelders. In typography, paper, and binding, this reprint âat the expense of United Friendsâ is a very creditable piece of bookmaking." - Evans 23975. Christopher Hoffmann of Philadelphia County. He was a Schwenkfelder minister as well as a binder, and much of the work was for his congregation. The tools he used to make blind-stamped decorations were unlike those of his German contemporaries; they may have been acquired second-hand from an Irish source. Refs: Maser 16a; Papantonio 9. Arndt 803. Anabaptist tract.

First American edition, 4to, pp. [8], 785, [3]; vignette title, woodcut ornaments; contemporary full calf over boards, original clasps and catches intact; some browning of the text, a few early fore-margins neatly reinforced; a very good, sound copy. Originally published in Sulzbach, Germany, in 1672. Reflects the religious views of the Schwenkfelders, a small Anabaptist sect founded in Silesia in the 16th century. Arndt 803; Evans 23975. Seidensticker, p. 129. Sabin 102503.

Condition: Gut. [8], 785, [3] Seiten, Deutschsprachiger religiöser Text, gedruckt in Germantown, Philadelphia. - Vorrede datiert: Montgomery Caunty, den 12ten Februar, 1791. - Einband etwas berieben, Schließen-Lederstreifen fehlen, Rücken etwas rissig, innen gebräunt. Sonst sauberes und wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. Wir senden umgehend mit beiliegender MwSt.Rechnung. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1001 blindgeprägter Lederband, 2 Messing-Schließen, umlaufender Farbschnitt, 22 yx 18 cm.

(GERMANTOWN IMPRINT). WEICHENHAN, Erasmus. Christliche Betractungen uber die Evangelischen Texte, so man pfleget zu lesen an denen Sontagen und hohen Festen, Christlich und aufrichtiggepredigt und bescreiben durch Erasmum Weichenhann.Germantown: Michael Billmeyer, 1791. (8), 785, (3)pp. 4to. A fine copy bound in full calf with raised bands on the spine. Arndt 803. Evans 23975. Collection of sermons by Weichenhan (d. 1594), who was a Silesian preacher and member of the Schwenckfelders, a small Anabaptist sect from southeastern Germany and Silesia. A large group of Schwenckfelders immigrated to Pennsylvania in the 1730s; they published many Schwenckfelder writings throughout the 18th century. A really fine example of German printing of the period.