Catechismus, Signed (3 results)

4°, Hardcover/Pappeinband. 160 S. Lizentiatsarbeit, mit Widmung des Verfassers, im Schuber, mit Abbildungen, gut erhalten Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

4 parts in 1 volume. An unrecorded issue (1 of at least 7) of a rare and important 1590 Bible edition, the corrected "deux aes" Bible, based on the first edition of 1562 (New Testament 1559), which remained the standard Dutch Reformed Bible until the official Dutch States translation, published in 1637. It was translated from Luther's German by Godfried van Wingen (the New Testament by Johannes Dyrkinus), after comparison with several other versions, and includes many notes, some also taken from Luther and some by Augustin Marlorat, as well as Petrus Danthenus's metric psalms with music notes. The Amsterdam bookseller Laurens Jacobsz. initiated the publication of the present corrected text of the "deus aes" Bible and the maps to accompany it, publishing the folio edition with maps himself, but sharing the quarto edition with four other publishers. Although Jacobsz.'s name does not appear in the present issue, he was originally trained as a binder, operated his shop at the sign of the gold-tooled Bible and Fontaine Verwey gives evidence to link him with the panel stamp on the present binding. He may therefore have bound copies (or had them bound) for the other publishers. Bibliasacra, Typ. Batava and the STCN together record only 8 copies of all issues combined, at least half of those lack leaves and some of the copies with all leaves have defective leaves or lack the maps, so that they record at most 2 other complete copies with maps.With a few leaves slightly browned, a water stain in the second half and the first preliminary quire of part 1 (faint outside a few quires), small tears in the maps and a few worm holes or other defects in the paper, mostly in the margins of the last few leaves, but still in good condition. The binding has been skilfully re-backed, probably in the early 19th-century, and is slightly rubbed, with a crack along the edge of the panel-stamp on the front board and a few minor cuts and scrapes, but also still in good condition and only slightly trimmed. A very rare complete copy of an important Dutch Reformed Bible, in an unrecorded issue and in a stunning contemporary gold panel-stamped and gold-tooled binding with engraved silver furnishings.l Bibliasacra 1590.B.dut.BHS.c & AHa, b & c; Le Long, p. 748; Poortman, Bijbel en prent I, pp. 112-119, 184-187 & 215; STCN 336510985 & 054873002, 334453534; Typ. Batava 602; cf. Darlow & Moule 3293; for the panel-stamp: H. de la Fontaine Verwey, "Amsterdamse uitgeversbanden van Cornelis Claes en Laurens Jacobsz", in: Uit de wereld van het boek II, pp. 33-48, at pp. 41-43. Contemporary gold panel-stamped and gold-tooled calf over wooden boards, sewn on 5 supports, with spectacular finely engraved silver furnishings: 8 corner pieces, 2 clasps, 2 catch plates and 2 anchor plates, the catch and anchor plates with four female virtues: Justice/Justitia (with sword and scales), Faith/Fides (praying toward the light of the sun), Charity or Love/Caritas (with 2 children) and Hope/Spes (holding a cross and treading on a snake); the corner pieces engraved with winged heads that appear to represent the four compass winds (Boreas, Notus, Euros, Zephyrus, each of the 8 different), also with engraved decoration on their edges; and each clasp with an oval martyrdom scene flanked by birds (with the feet toward the foot of the book: 2 men tied to a tree and being stoned in the upper clasp and a women being accosted by 2 men in the lower), all 14 pieces of silverwork with floral and other decoration and with their edges cut to decorative shapes. Each board has the same central rectangular panel-stamp (98 x 61 mm), with an oval scene of Charity or Love/Caritas with 3 children and with castle towers in the background on either side (that on the viewer's right on a mountain), with strapwork decoration around the oval (containing the maker's initials B and H) and inside the rectangle, the two decorations linked at the sides; with 2 gold-tooled double fleurs-de-lis above the panel-stamp and 2 below, the whole enclosed by three gold-tooled frames, each made with a different decorated roll, separated by blind-tooled multiple fillets; gilt and elaborately gauffered edges. Rebacked in gold-tooled calf (each compartment with a decorated oval with a decoration on either side, but with the original endpapers). With a general title-page and three part-titles, each with the same woodcut device (oval Biblical emblem with a quotation from Matthew 13:44, a mirror image copy of that in the 1562 first edition) in a separate elaborately decorated cartouche signed AvL (the combination: Dutch printers' devices 0671, p. 970); 3 engraved folding maps (plate size 23.5 x 17 & 29.5 x 17 cm) drawn by Petrus Plancius and executed by Baptista van Doetecum for the present Bible and the folio edition of the same year, showing Eden, the route of the Exodus and the Holy Land; ca. 20 woodcut illustrations in the text (mostly about 4 x 5 cm, but the largest 10 x 6 cm), a woodcut arabesque tailpiece, about 21 woodcut decorated initials (3 series) plus more than 50 repeats. Printed mostly in 2 columns with shoulder notes, set in textura gothic types with incidental roman and with diamond-head musical notes for the metrical Psalms, and a small (3.2 mm) vine-leaf ornament preceding many chapter headings (not in Vervliet, but similar to Vervliet 112 & 133). Pages: [20], 236; 92; 84; 108, [54] ll.

Germantown [Pa.]: Gedruckt bey Michael Billmeyer, 1803. Small octavo. Frontispiece, [12], 602, [8] pp. Printed in two columns. [bound with:] ]J.H.C. Helmuth. Kurze Andachten. Germantown [Pa.]: M. Billmeyer, 1803, 28 pp. [bound with:] Anhang zu dem Gesangbuch. Germantown [Pa.]: M. Billmeyer, 1803, 80 pp. Full calf with five raised spine bands; lacking one leather and metal clasp. Chipping and wear spine, rubbing to boards. Textblock sound, complete, and retaining original integrity. Three devotional and liturgical texts printed in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1803, bound in one volume, and issued for use among the German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran congregations in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. The principal work, Erbauliche Lieder-Sammlung (first published in 1795), was compiled and approved by the German Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania. It includes a frontispiece portrait of Martin Luther, signed "J.F. Reiche" (Hamilton 1175) and a preface by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. The volume also contains Kurze Andachten einer gottsuchenden Seele, a guide for daily devotions throughout the week, and the Anhang, a liturgical appendix comprising Luther's Kleiner Catechismus, appointed Epistles and Gospels for Sundays and feast days, and a collection of church prayers. An early example of American Lutheran printing, reflecting the spiritual infrastructure of German-speaking communities in the early republic. Printed by Michael Billmeyer, the foremost German-American printer of his day. Shaw and Shoemaker 4171, 4172, 4360. Seidensticker p. 160. Arndt & Eck 1334,1337, 1338. Full-titles: Erbauliche Lieder-Sammlung zum gottesdienstlichen Gebrauch in den Vereinigten Evangelisch-Lutherischen Gemeinen in Pennsylvanien und den benachbarten Staaten. Gesammelt, eingerichtet und zum Druck befördert durch das hiesige Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Ministerium. Dritte Auflage [bound with:] Kurze Andachten einer gottsuchenden Seele, auf alle Tage der Woche und andere Umstände eingerichtet. Dritte Auflage [bound with:] Anhang zu dem Gesangbuch der Vereinigten Evangelisch-Lutherischen Gemeinen in Nord-America. Enthaltend den Kleinen Catechismus Lutheri, Evangelia und Episteln, auf alle Sonntage, wie auch auf die Hohen Feste durchs ganze Jahr, mit Kirchengebeten.