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1522rif. 911Strasbourg : Matthias Schürer Erben 1521-1522: Strasbourg : Matthias Schürer Erben 1521-1522 1522. First Edition. Bound in modern 1/4 deer with some hair still on the leather. water stained throughout with paper damage in the lower margin not affecting the text contemporary marginal notes red and capitals stroked in red. This is a wonderfully visible example of large bearer type on the reverse of the title page. https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11230143page=2 Quarto20 x 15 cm. A-B 4 C 8 D-E 4 F 8 G-H 4 I 8 K-L4 M8 N-O4 P8 Q-R4 S6. VD 16 L 3763; Luther WA 6: 282 M and 351 O 400 P ;Benzing Luther 12; Benzing Schürer Erben 1961. [Strasbourg] : [Matthias Schürer Erben], (1521-1522?) unknown
rif. 19407Leipzig, Melchior Lotter, 1518. 1 vol. in-4°, cartonnage bradel moderne recouvert d'un feuillet imprimé rubriqué du Xve siècle. (18) ff. Signatures : [A-C]4 D6. Nombreuses annotations marginales du XVIe siècle, en partie coupées à la reliure, petit raccommodage au feuillet de titre, qq. rousseurs.
1943rif. 11717Heerenveen: De Blauwe Schuit The Blue Barge 1943. One of 75 copies. Pp. 4. 25.6 x 20.6 cm. Original printed wrappers with with a stencil print or ‘druksel’ on the upper cover printed in 6 colours by Werkman colophon with the device of De Blauwe Schuit on the inside front cover. An extremely good copy.A very good copy of a rare ‘Werkman’ title a prayer against the enemy written by Luther and printed in German - a not very subtle clandestine printing directed at the Germans during WWII. The Dutch designer and printer Hendrik Werkman 1882-1945 is best known for his innovative printing techniques and avant-garde typography. He was the publisher of ‘De Blauwe Shuit’ a series of underground booklets produced by dissident authors and poets including Jewish writers during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. Werkman was imprisoned by the German secret police in 1945 and executed without trial just three days before the liberation of the Netherlands.H.N. Werkman Het Complete oeuvre BS-28; De Jong 286. 5 copies listed on OCLC 4 in The Netherlands and 1 at the British Library. A prayer against the enemy - clandestinely printed in Holland during the War De Blauwe Schuit [The Blue Barge] unknown
1733rif. 3118Nuremberg J. A. Endter 1733. 1182 22 pp good condition - full leather bookband Nuremberg, J. A. Endter hardcover
1765rif. 21438Nürnberg: Johann Andreas Endter 1765. First Edition thus. Full Vellum. Very Good. Among the curiosities of this illustrated Luther Bible are the eleven copper engraved plates of Saxon noblemen -- electors princes in the preliminary or pre-bible pages. This bible is also markedly thicker heavier and containing more wood engravings than other Endter bibles we have had and even other Endter bibles of the same year of issue. Folio 40 by 28 cm. And 15 cm thick. 64 3- 258 4 259-768 4 769-1010 4 1011-1252 14 1-166 4 167-388 80 pp. With 26 plates one of which is double paged all copper engravings. We note that the page sequencing is complex and doesn't conform precisely to copies in OCLC First Search listings for the 1765 edition but the total number of pages ends up the same essentially with the location of the breaks in pagination different and we also can intuit than some of the extra or non-biblical text is placed at the beginning in some copies at the end in others. The vellum has extensive soiling darkening unevenness of color tears rubbing etc. The vellum or leather of one of the two clasps is almost entirely gone. Three of the eight original metal corner pieces are gone and the remaining pieces are tarnished with some dings. Still the contemporary binding remains highly attractive and most befitting of the bible. The text block is quite tight but there is considerable wear and soiling throughout mostly typical of these bibles. There are a fair number of closed tears mostly short. In the rear following the paginated portion or the New Testament there are several dark-ish stains on the edges and by the hinge. These stains affect many of the leaves and they caused pages to stick together. The pages have been successfully separated but the stains remain nasty looking in our candid view. In this rear section there are a few corner chips with a small loss of text. Johann Andreas Endter unknown
1765rif. 21438Nürnberg: Johann Andreas Endter 1765. First Edition thus. Full Vellum. Very Good. Among the curiosities of this illustrated Luther Bible are the eleven copper engraved plates of Saxon noblemen -- electors princes in the preliminary or pre-bible pages. This bible is also markedly thicker heavier and containing more wood engravings than other Endter bibles we have had and even other Endter bibles of the same year of issue. Folio 40 by 28 cm. And 15 cm thick. 64 3- 258 4 259-768 4 769-1010 4 1011-1252 14 1-166 4 167-388 80 pp. With 26 plates one of which is double paged all copper engravings. We note that the page sequencing is complex and doesn't conform precisely to copies in OCLC First Search listings for the 1765 edition but the total number of pages ends up the same essentially with the location of the breaks in pagination different and we also can intuit than some of the extra or non-biblical text is placed at the beginning in some copies at the end in others. The vellum has extensive soiling darkening unevenness of color tears rubbing etc. The vellum or leather of one of the two clasps is almost entirely gone. Three of the eight original metal corner pieces are gone and the remaining pieces are tarnished with some dings. Still the contemporary binding remains highly attractive and most befitting of the bible. The text block is quite tight but there is considerable wear and soiling throughout mostly typical of these bibles. There are a fair number of closed tears mostly short. In the rear following the paginated portion or the New Testament there are several dark-ish stains on the edges and by the hinge. These stains affect many of the leaves and they caused pages to stick together. The pages have been successfully separated but the stains remain nasty looking in our candid view. In this rear section there are a few corner chips with a small loss of text. Johann Andreas Endter unknown books
1554rif. 0050840 p. 4to A-E4 194 x 138 mm --- First and only edition of this report of the 1554 Eisleben Synod—which happens to have been the first book printed in Eisleben perhaps best known today as the birthplace of Martin Luther. USTC alone mentions an edition of Johannes Agricola's Ain Christliche Kinder printed at Eisleben in 1528 though it reports no copies USTC 710818. We suspect this refers to a copy once at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin tragically lost in the war. Like many editions of the Christliche Kinder the title indicates the author prepared the catechism for his students in Eisleben where he taught. Hence a cataloger might mistakenly provide Eisleben as place of printing when no other city appears on the title page. While Henry Cotton reports Eisleben was printing as early as 1535 Deschamps found no evidence of this and defers to the Synod publications of 1554 as the earliest. For what it's worth VD16 reports no Eisleben imprints before 1554. ¶ This particular synod was occasioned by three pastors in Mansfeld: Stephan Agricola Moritz Heling and Georg Major. All had professed that good works were necessary for salvation which obviously smacked of papistry. Nearly a hundred attended the synod with a complete list of names here on leaves C1v-C3r. While the vast majority did reject the necessity of good works the debate ended like so many noncommittal institutional positions "without clear wording as to whether an agreement was reached with the opponents at all and without mentioning the dismissal of Agricola and Heling" Dingel. ¶ But at least the report left us with Luther's first printed appearance in the city of his birth. Indeed half of the content beginning on C3v consists of excerpts from Luther's vast corpus. The synod appears to be citing Hans Lufft's multivolume Wittenberg edition. Compare Luther cited in our pamphlet aus dem vierden Tomo fol. 550 to >fol. 550v in Lufft's fourth volume 1551. Luther's family moved to nearby Mansfeld—the locus of our pamphlet's controversy—the year after he was born where he spent most of his youth. Family business brought Luther back to Mansfeld in 1546. He preached his final antisemitic sermon in Eisleben just a few days before his death. ¶ Jakob Bärwald was a Leipzig printer. He produced just a handful of items in Eisleben before turning the press over to Urban Gaubisch in 1554 his former apprentice and now husband to his sister-in-law. Of Bärwald's five Eisleben items two have precisely dated colophons: our Acta April 4 and an >Orationby Georg Lauterbeck April 7; VD16 L776. The preface to Sleidanus's >Kurtze summa is dated 16 April VD16 S6720. Sarcerius dates the text of his >TrostschrifftMay 5 VD16 S1779. Which leaves only Sarcerius's Form und Weise einer Visitation to possibly rival the April 4 Acta for priority VD16 S1705 and ZV20662 representing two slightly different title settings. And priority appears to go to the Acta. His two imprints with precise dates and the three without form two distinct groups even beyond the precise colophons with Form und Weise belonging to the second group. The later imprints those without precise colophons have dated title pages; the Acta and Oration have no imprint information whatsoever on their title pages. The Acta and Oration use the same woodcut decoration on the title which Bärwald only deploys again beneath the errata in Form und Weise; he preferred different decorations for the other three titles. This is consistent with Sabine Arend's assessment whose research found that Form und Weise "flowed from his pen between April and June 1554." And for what it's worth our source a reputable German auction house citing reference sources beyond our own was unequivocal in calling this Eisleben's first printed book. ¶ Of course it's satisfying to have the first printed book from any given city. But beyond that to have Luther's first printed appearance in the city of both his birth and death.it feels almost totemic. ¶ We find two copies in North America Harvard and Yale. --- PROVENANCE: A couple of numbers inked on the title page perhaps shelfmarks of the 18th or 19th centuries. Scattered early underlining on a handful of pages. Faint evidence of an old ink stamp on the title. --- CONDITION: Recent full brown calfskin the boards paneled in blind the spine tooled in gold. ¶ Title leaf and blank verso of the final leaf soiled; scattered dark staining in the lower margin a few leaves with large stains in the text; title leaf and final leaf repaired at the outer margin the other outer margins generally a bit ragged but damage not quite reaching the text. --- REFERENCES: USTC 608666; VD16 A151 ¶ Henry Cotton A Typographical Gazetteer Oxford Univ 1831 >p. 132 "Eisleben a town of Upper Saxony near Mansfeld memorable for the birth of Luther. Printing was exercised here at least so early as 1566."; Henry Cotton A Typographical Gazetteer Second Series Oxford 1866 >p. 104 claiming 1535 as the start of printing in Eisleben; P. Deschamps Dictionnaire de géographie ancienne et moderne a l'usage du libraire Berlin 1922 col. 666; Irene Dingel Controversia et Confessio Digital 2022; an excellent summary of the content; Sabine Arend "Die Kirchenordnungen der Grafschaft Mansfeld im 16. Jahrhundert" Von Grafen und Predigern: Zur Reformationsgeschichte des Mansfelder Landes Leipzig 2014 p. 50; Heinrich Rembe "Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst in der Stadt Eisleben" Zeitschrift des Harz-Vereins für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 18 1886 p. 423-425; Josef Benzing Die Buchdrucker des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts im Deutschen Sprachgebiet 1963 p. 94 cites 1554 as Eisleben's first year of printing and Bärwald as its first printer Jakob Bärwald hardcover
1958rif. 578481New York: Harper & Brothers 1958. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Owner stamp of D. Lamar Jacks of the Boston University School of Theology on front fly slightest foxing on front fly easily fine in very near fine dust jacket with tiny nicks at the spine ends. King's first book the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott written when he was 29 years old. In 1951 King began his work on his doctoral studies in systematic theology at the Boston University School of Theology. Jacks was a white historian and scholar from Tennessee who earned a Masters of Sacred Theology at the Boston University School of Theology. A much nicer than usual copy of Dr. King's first book. Harper & Brothers hardcover
2007rif. 022457New York: Limited Editions Club 2007. First Illustrated Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine clamshell box. Faith Ringgold. Folio 12-1/4" x 14-1/2" hand bound in full red linen with the same fabric covering the felt-lined clamshell box housing the book. Gilt-lettered black morocco title label inset on the front cover of the book with a black morocco label with the author's name on the spine of the box. Printed letterpress on rectos only on handmade paper. Illustrated with 8 serigraph prints by Faith Ringgold who has also written an introduction to the book. Afterword by Dr. C. T. Vivian a friend of King's who marched beside him. Copy #109 of 420 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1958rif. 578481New York: Harper & Brothers 1958. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Owner stamp of D. Lamar Jacks of the Boston University School of Theology on front fly slightest foxing on front fly easily fine in very near fine dust jacket with tiny nicks at the spine ends. King's first book the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott written when he was 29 years old. In 1951 King began his work on his doctoral studies in systematic theology at the Boston University School of Theology. Jacks was a white historian and scholar from Tennessee who earned a Masters of Sacred Theology at the Boston University School of Theology. A much nicer than usual copy of Dr. King's first book. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1589rif. 60075Wittemberg:: Durch Johan. Krafft 1589-1590. very old wooden boards wormed; four of eight metal corners and portion of one clasp remaining; covering material entirely absent except for vellum spine underlayment. The original sewing structure is intact. The final leaf of text has been trimmed close to the printed area and laid down; corners of text block thumbed and rounded. . Folio. Engraved title page; engraved text illustrations. Durch Johan. Krafft, hardcover
1577rif. 57412Kiøbenhaffn, Matz Vinggaard, 1577. Folio. Samtidigt hellæderbind over træ. 2 messinbeslag efter 2 lukkestroppe. Ryg med ophøjede bind. Ryg fornyet i ældre tid. Kapitælslid. De rigt blindtrykte permsider kun delvist bevarede, panelleret med rullestempler. Hjørner restaurerede. En nyere, på permens inderside, indklæbet beskrivelse, hævder, at bindet er udført af P. Knufflack.(14),171,155,114 blade. 4 blade i faksimile (A1-2 og B4-5). En del blade kantflossede. Nogle skjolder, brugsspor. Enkelte blade defekte med lidt tab af bogstaver. Spredte kantreparationer og mindre revner i marginer. De to deltitelblade med bred træskåren ramme. Gennemillustreret med store bibelske træsnit som er kopier af Hans Brosamers illustrationer til en tysk bibel, trykt i Frankfurt 1548-49. Folio. Contemporary full calf binding over wooden boards with old rebacking. Two brass clasps, no ties. Raised bands to spine. Capitals worn. The richly blindstamped boards have only partly been preserved. Corners restored. A newer decription pasted into the inside of front board claims that the binding was made by P. Knufflack. Several leaves worn at edges. Some damp staining and wear. A few leaves defective with loss of a few letters. Scattered edge repairs and small tears to margins. The two half-titles with wide woodcut border. Illustrated throughout with large biblical woodcuts that are copies of Hans Brosamer's illustrations for a German bible printed in Frankfurt 1548-49. 4 leaves in facsimile (A1-2 and B4-5). (14), 171, 155, 114 ff.
1577rif. 57412Kiøbenhaffn Matz Vinggaard 1577. Folio. Samtidigt hellæderbind over træ. 2 messinbeslag efter 2 lukkestroppe. Ryg med ophøjede bind. Ryg fornyet i ældre tid. Kapitælslid. De rigt blindtrykte permsider kun delvist bevarede panelleret med rullestempler. Hjørner restaurerede. En nyere på permens inderside indklæbet beskrivelse hævder at bindet er udført af P. Knufflack.14171155114 blade. 4 blade i faksimile A1-2 og B4-5. En del blade kantflossede. Nogle skjolder brugsspor. Enkelte blade defekte med lidt tab af bogstaver. Spredte kantreparationer og mindre revner i marginer. De to deltitelblade med bred træskåren ramme. Gennemillustreret med store bibelske træsnit som er kopier af Hans Brosamers illustrationer til en tysk bibel trykt i Frankfurt 1548-49. Folio. Contemporary full calf binding over wooden boards with old rebacking. Two brass clasps no ties. Raised bands to spine. Capitals worn. The richly blindstamped boards have only partly been preserved. Corners restored. A newer decription pasted into the inside of front board claims that the binding was made by P. Knufflack. Several leaves worn at edges. Some damp staining and wear. A few leaves defective with loss of a few letters. Scattered edge repairs and small tears to margins. The two half-titles with wide woodcut border. Illustrated throughout with large biblical woodcuts that are copies of Hans Brosamer's illustrations for a German bible printed in Frankfurt 1548-49. 4 leaves in facsimile A1-2 and B4-5. 14 171 155 114 ff. The exceedingly scarce re-issue of the first Danish edition of Luther's "Huuspostille" which was printed by Lorenz Benedicht in 1564. Thesurus states that only two copies of this incredibly rare book has been on the market since World War II. Only very few copies on private hands. Det yderst sjældne re-issue af førsteudgaven der blev trykt af Lorentz Benedicht i 1564. Thesaurus anfører at der kun har været to eksemplarer på markedet siden 2. Verdenskrig.Thesaurus I 104. - Birkelund 24 1564-udgaven - Lauritz Nielsen 1085. hardcover
rif. 12585n.n. 20th cent. Afmetingen: 63 x 18 x 18 cm vervaardigd uit gips. Unique statue of Maarten Luther holding the Holy Bible. The statue is made of plaster and in good condition. Dimensions: H. 63 x W. 18 x D. 18 cm. n.n. unknown
1802rif. 56439Baltimore. 1802. Federal-Era Scandal: Luther Martin Attacks a Notorious Rogue for Running Off with His Daughter A rare pamphlet issued privately by Luther Martin a leading Federalist while serving as Attorney General of Maryland. The impetus for the publication of the text was the unwelcome elopement of Martin's daughter with Martin's law student the notorious Richard Raynal Keene. The sense of dishonor and disrespect Martin felt is palpable in the language he uses here. Eberstadt wrote of the work that "All the bile accumulated in jaundiced guardianship from the time of Fulbert is spewed forth on these pages in which Martin's poisoned quill wreaks a Modern Vengeance almost unique." Keene would reply to the accusations set forth here in his own pamphlet the same year titled A LETTER FROM RICHARD RAYNAL KEENE TO LUTHER MARTIN ESQ. ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF MARYLAND; UPON THE SUBJECT OF HIS 'MODERN GRATITUDE.' The present work is also interesting for Luther's sketch of his early life including Maryland society at the time of the American Revolution. Martin is highly regarded for his publication of THE GENUINE INFORMATION.RELATIVE TO THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL CONVENTION LATELY HELD AT PHILADELPHIA. a rare and valuable work recording Martin's minutes of the debates at the federal Constitutional Convention which is the only account of the events and discussions to be published during the debates over ratification. Luther Martin was a New Jersey-born lawyer and politician who set up his practice in Maryland where he took up the Patriot cause and became involved in Revolutionary government. He served as Maryland's attorney general from 1778 to 1805 and later from 1818 to 1822. He also represented Maryland as a delegate at the Constitutional Convention where he was an important proponent of the rights of the smaller states helping to frame the New Jersey Plan. "Keene for about thirty years after his graduation from Princeton in 1795 had an interesting career which as far as I know has never been sketched except for brief references in the Princeton Alumni Catalogue. It began with his playing a leading role in the most publicized romance of his time when as a student in the law office of the eminent and redoubtable Luther Martin he fell in love with Eleanor Martin and against the fierce opposition of her father married her on January 27 1802. This led to the publication by Martin of a series of five articles under the heading MODERN GRATITUDE" - Streeter. "Privately printed by Martin for distribution among his friends" - Sabin. Lathrop Harper called the book "rare" in 1914. It is indeed a truly rare work issued in an unknown but surely small number of copies. The last copy listed in Rare Book Hub appeared in an Eberstadt catalogue in 1963 priced $300. The present copy though lacking the errata leaf is still a desirable early United States work involving two important early Marylanders. Not in Howes and the first copy ever offered by this firm. Original plain front wrapper rear wrapper lacking. Wrapper soiled and worn neatly repaired at outer corners and spine. Contemporary ink notations on titlepage and in the margins of a few pages of text small tear in center of first three leaves. Moderate foxing staining and uneven toning throughout. Good. SABIN 44898. STREETER TEXAS 1056 note. LATHROP HARPER 136:1181. EBERSTADT 162:454. BRINLEY 3681. unknown
1802rif. 56439Baltimore. 1802. Federal-Era Scandal: Luther Martin Attacks a Notorious Rogue for Running Off with His Daughter A rare pamphlet issued privately by Luther Martin a leading Federalist while serving as Attorney General of Maryland. The impetus for the publication of the text was the unwelcome elopement of Martin's daughter with Martin's law student the notorious Richard Raynal Keene. The sense of dishonor and disrespect Martin felt is palpable in the language he uses here. Eberstadt wrote of the work that "All the bile accumulated in jaundiced guardianship from the time of Fulbert is spewed forth on these pages in which Martin's poisoned quill wreaks a Modern Vengeance almost unique." Keene would reply to the accusations set forth here in his own pamphlet the same year titled A LETTER FROM RICHARD RAYNAL KEENE TO LUTHER MARTIN ESQ. ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF MARYLAND; UPON THE SUBJECT OF HIS 'MODERN GRATITUDE.' The present work is also interesting for Luther's sketch of his early life including Maryland society at the time of the American Revolution. Martin is highly regarded for his publication of THE GENUINE INFORMATION.RELATIVE TO THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL CONVENTION LATELY HELD AT PHILADELPHIA. a rare and valuable work recording Martin's minutes of the debates at the federal Constitutional Convention which is the only account of the events and discussions to be published during the debates over ratification. Luther Martin was a New Jersey-born lawyer and politician who set up his practice in Maryland where he took up the Patriot cause and became involved in Revolutionary government. He served as Maryland's attorney general from 1778 to 1805 and later from 1818 to 1822. He also represented Maryland as a delegate at the Constitutional Convention where he was an important proponent of the rights of the smaller states helping to frame the New Jersey Plan. "Keene for about thirty years after his graduation from Princeton in 1795 had an interesting career which as far as I know has never been sketched except for brief references in the Princeton Alumni Catalogue. It began with his playing a leading role in the most publicized romance of his time when as a student in the law office of the eminent and redoubtable Luther Martin he fell in love with Eleanor Martin and against the fierce opposition of her father married her on January 27 1802. This led to the publication by Martin of a series of five articles under the heading MODERN GRATITUDE" - Streeter. "Privately printed by Martin for distribution among his friends" - Sabin. Lathrop Harper called the book "rare" in 1914. It is indeed a truly rare work issued in an unknown but surely small number of copies. The last copy listed in Rare Book Hub appeared in an Eberstadt catalogue in 1963 priced $300. The present copy though lacking the errata leaf is still a desirable early United States work involving two important early Marylanders. Not in Howes and the first copy ever offered by this firm. Original plain front wrapper rear wrapper lacking. Wrapper soiled and worn neatly repaired at outer corners and spine. Contemporary ink notations on titlepage and in the margins of a few pages of text small tear in center of first three leaves. Moderate foxing staining and uneven toning throughout. Good. SABIN 44898. STREETER TEXAS 1056 note. LATHROP HARPER 136:1181. EBERSTADT 162:454. BRINLEY 3681. unknown books
1827rif. 54126Philadelphia: J. G. Ritter 1827. Hardcover. Good. Two parts thick octavo. VIII 1096; 328. Old Testament and Apocrypha paginated continuously; collective title page; New Testament with separate full title page. Text in two columns. Contemporary calf rubbed; spine with raised bands gilt title. Wear at spine cap some loss 3/4 inch at spine tail. Light dampstain at bottom margin; mild foxing throughout somewhat heavier at final 50 leaves. A good complete copy. Rare early nineteenth-century edition of the Bible in Luther's German translation published in Pennsylvania. Apart from the 1828 New Testament very few copies of any of the Luther Bible editions published by Johann Georg Ritter 1772-1840 at Philadelphia between 1826 and 1829 survive. In his 1893 pioneering work The First Century of German Printing in America Oswald Seidensticker locates no complete Luther Bibles and only two editions of the New Testament which were published by Ritter in 1826 304 pages and 1828 541 pages. These were of course often bound with the Old Testament along with their full title-page. The 1828 New Testament is the only portion of Ritter's biblical editions that is widely held in institutional libraries. Expanding upon the work of Seidensticker the editors of The first Century of German Language Printing in the United States of America 1989 assign only four Luther Bible editions Old and New Testaments bound together to Ritter one in 1827 and three in 1829. OCLC however locates Luther Bible editions published by Ritter in all four years between 1826 and 1829. A careful comparison of the paginations reveals that Ritter's Luther Bibles appeared in several variants. The 1827 edition was re-issued in 1829 as a "Zweyte Auflage" with 20 additional pages of preparatory material immediately preceding the Old Testament. Variants of the present edition also appeared in which the Apocrypha 160 pages was separately paginated. Some surviving copies lack the Apocrypha and only contain the 936 pages of the Old Testament. Our careful review of OCLC locates only sixteen surviving copies of Ritter's Luther Bibles containing both the Old and New Testaments published between 1826 and 1829. Twenty-four copies of the separately bound 1828 New Testament have survived as well. The only two copies of our 1827 edition have been located: the University of Waterloo and the Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek. The results of our census are appended below. Johann Georg Ritter appears to have begun his career in Reading Pennsylvania where he printed two German-language works for the firm of William M'Carty and Davis in Philadelphia: Geschichte des americanischen Kriegs von 1812 1817; Hoch-Deutsches reformirtes A B C-und Namen-Büchlein für Kinder welche anfangen zu lernen 1818. He later moved to Philadelphia and set up his own shop Der Deutsche-europäischen Buch- und Kunsthandlung. Sammlung religiöser deutscher Gesaenge which he edited along with J. G. Schmauk was published in 1824 and has been tentatively attributed to Ritter after his move to Philadelphia; Karl Rudolph Demme's Letzte ehre des Christlichen Predigers in einer Christlichen Gemeine Philadelphia 1825 is the earliest work to appear under his imprint. He catered chiefly to the German-speaking Reformed community with religious works sermons and elementary school texts. He briefly published in 1825 a periodical edited by Johann Carl Gossler Philadelphier Magazin für Freunde der deutschen Literatur in Amerika. Provenance: Stamp of Library of United Theological Seminary at title. Full title and imprint: Die Bibel oder die ganze Heilige Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments auch der deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers. Mit stehenden Lettern. Philadelphia in der Deutsch-europäischen Buch- und Kunsthandlung von J. G. Ritter 1827. New Testament title: Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi verteutscht von Dr. Martin Luther. Mit stehender Schrift. Philadelphia in der Deutsche-europäischen Buch- und Kunsthandlung von J. G. Ritter 1827. Refences: O. Seidensticker The First Century of German printing in America 1728-1830 Philadelphia 1893; Bötte & Tannhof The First Century of German Language printing in the United States of America vol. 2 1808 - 1830 cf. nos. 2878; 3044; 3045; 3046. Not in Darlow & Moule. INVENTORY •Die Bibel oder Die ganze Heilige Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments New Testament with separate title page 1826 - xii 868 304 pages 18 cm - Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library "New Testament has special t.p.: Das Neue Testament Unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi verteutscht von D. Martin Luther." 1826 - 2 volumes in 1 19 cm - Pennsylvania State Univ; Brigham Young Univ UT "New Testament has special t.p. and separate paging." 1827 - viii 1096; 328 pages - Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek - OUR EDITION 1827 - viii 1096; 328 pages 22 cm - Univ of Waterloo Libr CA ON - OUR EDITION 1827 2 Aufl. - viii 936; 328 pages 22 cm - Baker Univ KS; American Bible Soc Libr PA "Zweyte Auflage. Mit stehenden Lettern."/ Spine title: Biblia./ The Holy Bible in German./ The New Testament has special title page and pagination: Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi./ Bound in brown leather tan end papers sprinkled red edge brass clasps missing title in gold on spine./ Text printed in verse form double column single rule down center of page. Chapter summaries in smaller type references between verses." N.B.: Our researches indicate this copy lacks Aprocrypha = 160 pages probably separately paginated as Hillsdale 1829 edition below. 1827 - viii 1557 3 462 p. - Bethel Coll Libr N Newton KS; American Antiquarian Soc Libr MA; United Theog Seminary Libr OH; Library of Virginia "The New Testament 462 p. has separate title page./ Printed in two columns./ "Die Propheten nebst den Büchern so man Apocrypha nennet verdeutscht durch D. Martin Luther."-- Page 965-1557. Shoemaker 28112; Bötte & Tannhof German printing 2878." 1828 20. Aufl. - viii 936; 328 pages 22 cm - Univ. of Virginia N.B.: Our researches indicate this copy lacks Aprocrypha = 160 pages probably separately paginated as Hillsdale copy 1829 edition below. 1828 - 1324 462 pages 23 cm - Buffalo & Erie Cnty Pub Libr Rare Books NY; Calvin Col and Theol Seminary MI "New Testament has special t.p. and separate paging." 1829 2 Aufl. - 2 20 1096 x 328 pages 23 cm 2 Aufl. - Univ of Waterloo Libr CA ON 1829 Zweyte Aufl. mit stehenden Lettern. 23 cm - viii 336 i.e. 936 160 328 pages ; 23 cm - Hillsdale Coll. Mossey Libr MI "Apocrypha and New Testament each have special t.p./ Apocrypha has publication date 1829; New Testament has publication date 1828." •Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi 1826 - 304 pages 18 cm - Kansas City Pub Libr MO; Webster Eden Libr MO; Franklin & Marshall Col PA; German Soc of Pennsylvania Horner Libr 1827 - 462 pages 23 cm - New York Pub Libr 1828 Neue Aufl. - 542 pages 8vo - Universiteit Goettingen longer title page text: . Mit kurzem Inhalt eines jeden Capitels und vollständiger Anweisung gleicher Schriftquellen ; Wie auch aller Sonn- und Festtägigen Evangelien und Episteln. 1828 Neue Auflage - 542 p. 18 cm - American Antiquarian Soc Libr MA Shoemaker 32318; Bötte & Tannhof German Printing 2970 1828 New ed. - 542 pages - Univ of Ontario Group; Univ of Toronto Thomas Fischer Rare Book "mit kurzem Inhalt eines jeden Capitels und vollständige Anweisunggleicher Schriftstellen wie auch aller Sohn- und Festtägigen Evangelien und Episteln." 1828 - 542 pages 19 cm - 20 Libraries 19 US; 1 CA "Text printed in double column verse form single rule down center of page title centered across top of both pages. Chapter summaries in matching type references after verses. mit kurzem Inhalt eines jeden Capitels und vollständiger Anweisung gleicher Schriftstellen wie auch aller Sonn- und Festtägigen Evangelien und Episteln. J. G. Ritter hardcover
1827rif. 54126Philadelphia: J. G. Ritter 1827. Hardcover. Good. Two parts thick octavo. VIII 1096; 328. Old Testament and Apocrypha paginated continuously; collective title page; New Testament with separate full title page. Text in two columns. Contemporary calf rubbed; spine with raised bands gilt title. Wear at spine cap some loss 3/4 inch at spine tail. Light dampstain at bottom margin; mild foxing throughout somewhat heavier at final 50 leaves. A good complete copy. Rare early nineteenth-century edition of the Bible in Luther's German translation published in Pennsylvania. Apart from the 1828 New Testament very few copies of any of the Luther Bible editions published by Johann Georg Ritter 1772-1840 at Philadelphia between 1826 and 1829 survive. In his 1893 pioneering work The First Century of German Printing in America Oswald Seidensticker locates no complete Luther Bibles and only two editions of the New Testament which were published by Ritter in 1826 304 pages and 1828 541 pages. These were of course often bound with the Old Testament along with their full title-page. The 1828 New Testament is the only portion of Ritter's biblical editions that is widely held in institutional libraries. Expanding upon the work of Seidensticker the editors of The first Century of German Language Printing in the United States of America 1989 assign only four Luther Bible editions Old and New Testaments bound together to Ritter one in 1827 and three in 1829. OCLC however locates Luther Bible editions published by Ritter in all four years between 1826 and 1829. A careful comparison of the paginations reveals that Ritter's Luther Bibles appeared in several variants. The 1827 edition was re-issued in 1829 as a "Zweyte Auflage" with 20 additional pages of preparatory material immediately preceding the Old Testament. Variants of the present edition also appeared in which the Apocrypha 160 pages was separately paginated. Some surviving copies lack the Apocrypha and only contain the 936 pages of the Old Testament. Our careful review of OCLC locates only sixteen surviving copies of Ritter's Luther Bibles containing both the Old and New Testaments published between 1826 and 1829. Twenty-four copies of the separately bound 1828 New Testament have survived as well. The only two copies of our 1827 edition have been located: the University of Waterloo and the Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek. The results of our census are appended below. Johann Georg Ritter appears to have begun his career in Reading Pennsylvania where he printed two German-language works for the firm of William M'Carty and Davis in Philadelphia: Geschichte des americanischen Kriegs von 1812 1817; Hoch-Deutsches reformirtes A B C-und Namen-Büchlein für Kinder welche anfangen zu lernen 1818. He later moved to Philadelphia and set up his own shop Der Deutsche-europäischen Buch- und Kunsthandlung. Sammlung religiöser deutscher Gesaenge which he edited along with J. G. Schmauk was published in 1824 and has been tentatively attributed to Ritter after his move to Philadelphia; Karl Rudolph Demme's Letzte ehre des Christlichen Predigers in einer Christlichen Gemeine Philadelphia 1825 is the earliest work to appear under his imprint. He catered chiefly to the German-speaking Reformed community with religious works sermons and elementary school texts. He briefly published in 1825 a periodical edited by Johann Carl Gossler Philadelphier Magazin für Freunde der deutschen Literatur in Amerika. Provenance: Stamp of Library of United Theological Seminary at title. Full title and imprint: Die Bibel oder die ganze Heilige Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments auch der deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers. Mit stehenden Lettern. Philadelphia in der Deutsch-europäischen Buch- und Kunsthandlung von J. G. Ritter 1827. New Testament title: Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi verteutscht von Dr. Martin Luther. Mit stehender Schrift. Philadelphia in der Deutsche-europäischen Buch- und Kunsthandlung von J. G. Ritter 1827. Refences: O. Seidensticker The First Century of German printing in America 1728-1830 Philadelphia 1893; Bötte & Tannhof The First Century of German Language printing in the United States of America vol. 2 1808 - 1830 cf. nos. 2878; 3044; 3045; 3046. Not in Darlow & Moule. INVENTORY •Die Bibel oder Die ganze Heilige Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments New Testament with separate title page 1826 - xii 868 304 pages 18 cm - Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library "New Testament has special t.p.: Das Neue Testament Unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi verteutscht von D. Martin Luther." 1826 - 2 volumes in 1 19 cm - Pennsylvania State Univ; Brigham Young Univ UT "New Testament has special t.p. and separate paging." 1827 - viii 1096; 328 pages - Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek - OUR EDITION 1827 - viii 1096; 328 pages 22 cm - Univ of Waterloo Libr CA ON - OUR EDITION 1827 2 Aufl. - viii 936; 328 pages 22 cm - Baker Univ KS; American Bible Soc Libr PA "Zweyte Auflage. Mit stehenden Lettern."/ Spine title: Biblia./ The Holy Bible in German./ The New Testament has special title page and pagination: Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi./ Bound in brown leather tan end papers sprinkled red edge brass clasps missing title in gold on spine./ Text printed in verse form double column single rule down center of page. Chapter summaries in smaller type references between verses." N.B.: Our researches indicate this copy lacks Aprocrypha = 160 pages probably separately paginated as Hillsdale 1829 edition below. 1827 - viii 1557 3 462 p. - Bethel Coll Libr N Newton KS; American Antiquarian Soc Libr MA; United Theog Seminary Libr OH; Library of Virginia "The New Testament 462 p. has separate title page./ Printed in two columns./ "Die Propheten nebst den Büchern so man Apocrypha nennet verdeutscht durch D. Martin Luther."-- Page 965-1557. Shoemaker 28112; Bötte & Tannhof German printing 2878." 1828 20. Aufl. - viii 936; 328 pages 22 cm - Univ. of Virginia N.B.: Our researches indicate this copy lacks Aprocrypha = 160 pages probably separately paginated as Hillsdale copy 1829 edition below. 1828 - 1324 462 pages 23 cm - Buffalo & Erie Cnty Pub Libr Rare Books NY; Calvin Col and Theol Seminary MI "New Testament has special t.p. and separate paging." 1829 2 Aufl. - 2 20 1096 x 328 pages 23 cm 2 Aufl. - Univ of Waterloo Libr CA ON 1829 Zweyte Aufl. mit stehenden Lettern. 23 cm - viii 336 i.e. 936 160 328 pages ; 23 cm - Hillsdale Coll. Mossey Libr MI "Apocrypha and New Testament each have special t.p./ Apocrypha has publication date 1829; New Testament has publication date 1828." •Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi 1826 - 304 pages 18 cm - Kansas City Pub Libr MO; Webster Eden Libr MO; Franklin & Marshall Col PA; German Soc of Pennsylvania Horner Libr 1827 - 462 pages 23 cm - New York Pub Libr 1828 Neue Aufl. - 542 pages 8vo - Universiteit Goettingen longer title page text: . Mit kurzem Inhalt eines jeden Capitels und vollständiger Anweisung gleicher Schriftquellen ; Wie auch aller Sonn- und Festtägigen Evangelien und Episteln. 1828 Neue Auflage - 542 p. 18 cm - American Antiquarian Soc Libr MA Shoemaker 32318; Bötte & Tannhof German Printing 2970 1828 New ed. - 542 pages - Univ of Ontario Group; Univ of Toronto Thomas Fischer Rare Book "mit kurzem Inhalt eines jeden Capitels und vollständige Anweisunggleicher Schriftstellen wie auch aller Sohn- und Festtägigen Evangelien und Episteln." 1828 - 542 pages 19 cm - 20 Libraries 19 US; 1 CA "Text printed in double column verse form single rule down center of page title centered across top of both pages. Chapter summaries in matching type references after verses. mit kurzem Inhalt eines jeden Capitels und vollständiger Anweisung gleicher Schriftstellen wie auch aller Sonn- und Festtägigen Evangelien und Episteln. J. G. Ritter hardcover books
1963rif. 6151641963. Unbound. Near Fine. Group of 20 gelatin silver photographs. Each measuring 4½" x 3¼". The back of each photo has light vertical glue stains from once being stored in a photo album while the fronts have old yellowed tape remnants in the margins which fortunately have not affected the central images very good. A collection of vernacular photographs of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 1963 taken by an attendee. Captured are images of marchers in the streets at various locations around the Mall and on the lawn by the Washington Monument but with most taken from quite near the steps of the Lincoln Monument where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. A photo of a sign for "Atlantic City NJ" and another taken near a scaffolding clearly places the photographer at the rear of the right hedge row looking up toward the speaker's platform. Among the most notable images are those of Jackie Robinson making his way through the crowd with the help of ushers; a close-up photograph of actress Lena Horne sporting her NAACP side cap; two images of Josephine Baker dressed in her French Resistance uniform and medals standing up in the crowd for a photo; and a group of students in front of a "Prince Edward" banner representing Robert Russa Moton High School one of the five litigants combined into the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. A nice collection of vernacular images from one of the defining moments of 20th Century American history. unknown
1963rif. 6151641963. Unbound. Near Fine. Group of 20 gelatin silver photographs. Each measuring 4½" x 3¼". The back of each photo has light vertical glue stains from once being stored in a photo album while the fronts have old yellowed tape remnants in the margins which fortunately have not affected the central images very good. A collection of vernacular photographs of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 1963 taken by an attendee. Captured are images of marchers in the streets at various locations around the Mall and on the lawn by the Washington Monument but with most taken from quite near the steps of the Lincoln Monument where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. A photo of a sign for "Atlantic City NJ" and another taken near a scaffolding clearly places the photographer at the rear of the right hedge row looking up toward the speaker's platform. Among the most notable images are those of Jackie Robinson making his way through the crowd with the help of ushers; a close-up photograph of actress Lena Horne sporting her NAACP side cap; two images of Josephine Baker dressed in her French Resistance uniform and medals standing up in the crowd for a photo; and a group of students in front of a "Prince Edward" banner representing Robert Russa Moton High School one of the five litigants combined into the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. A nice collection of vernacular images from one of the defining moments of 20th Century American history. unknown books
1894rif. 140944861New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. First edition. First edition. 66 5 pp. Bound in publisher's olive cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with small stain to front board former owner's name stamped on front paste down and front free endpaper. Pages free of marking. Rare in the first edition. The standard child-rearing text of the late 19th and early 20th centuries written by an American pediatrician who was instrumental in the certification of milk the development of the medical chart and the introduction of schedules and discipline in parenting. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1711rif. 08253Luneburg: Johann Stern 1711. Very Good. Large Folio 16 1/2" x 11 1/2". A magnificent pulpit size Bible in contemporary full leather binding with cast bronze corners each showing a different biblical narrative 4 on front board and 4 on rear 4 cast bronze studs for clasps one lacking and a cast bronze figure of Jesus on front board and a cast bronze figure of Moses on the rear board. Printed title and engraved title with frontis for Old Testament both mounted and engraved title with New Testament; large folding BIRD'S EYE VIEW of the Jerusalem 42" x 16 1/2" mounted; double page map of the Holy Land. 42374122521424512 - includes the Apocrypha. Internally clean and bright contemporary note on OT printed title page and small marginal loss to edge obliterating the date 1711. Binding and ropes are strong small loss at spine ends. A very good copy indeed; not in Darlow and Moule. Johann Stern unknown
1523rif. 378192Wittenberg: Lukas Cranach and Christian Döring 1523. First edition the only Wittenberg printing of ten 1523 printings identified by Benzing. 8 pp. Title printed within historiated woodcut border; woodcut initial. 4to. Later plain wrappers. Small spot of adhesive to right edge of title page with offsetting to following leaf negligible light foxing. Provenance: "H.S." monogram bookplate with inscription dated 1776; William R. Whittingham ex libris dated 1856; Maryland Diocesan Library; General Theological Seminary bookplates and inkstamps. First edition the only Wittenberg printing of ten 1523 printings identified by Benzing. 8 pp. Title printed within historiated woodcut border; woodcut initial. 4to. "The earliest and shortest" of Luther's liturgical writings this work laid the ground for the formal Latin and German orders of service Luther would issue later in 1523 and in 1526 Korthals. It was written as a letter to the town of Leisnig where Luther had spent extensive time developing a Reformed church order for the parish in 1522 and which asked for his help again in 1523. Recent controversies in Wittenberg meant that this was a delicate task. "After he had rejected Karlstadt's violent reformation of worship Luther could not just reinstate the traditional order of worship. He had to point out how the former way of worship.was undesirable without supporting revolution" Korthals. In the letter Luther emphasizes the centrality of the sermon which he considered Catholic liturgy to have supplanted in favor of Scripture reading and hymns. William R. Whittingham 1805-1879 graduated the General Theological Seminary in 1825 and was named librarian of the newly founded school. He later accepted a position on the faculty in 1836. Whittingham was consecrated the fourth Bishop of Maryland in 1840 and served in that capacity until his death. Bishop Whittingham's important theological library became the core of the Maryland Diocese library which was in turn transferred to the General Theological Seminary. Like other early publications by Luther scarce with no copies appearing at auction since 1978. Korthals "How the Reformers Dealt with Change in the Church" 2004. Benzing 1615; VD16 L 7305; Luther J. Titeleinfassungen der Reformationszeit 58 [Lukas Cranach and Christian Döring] unknown
1711rif. 08253Luneburg: Johann Stern 1711. Very Good. Large Folio 16 1/2" x 11 1/2". A magnificent pulpit size Bible in contemporary full leather binding with cast bronze corners each showing a different biblical narrative 4 on front board and 4 on rear 4 cast bronze studs for clasps one lacking and a cast bronze figure of Jesus on front board and a cast bronze figure of Moses on the rear board. Printed title and engraved title with frontis for Old Testament both mounted and engraved title with New Testament; large folding BIRD'S EYE VIEW of the Jerusalem 42" x 16 1/2" mounted; double page map of the Holy Land. 42374122521424512 - includes the Apocrypha. Internally clean and bright contemporary note on OT printed title page and small marginal loss to edge obliterating the date 1711. Binding and ropes are strong small loss at spine ends. A very good copy indeed; not in Darlow and Moule. Johann Stern unknown books
1523rif. 378192Wittenberg: Lukas Cranach and Christian Döring 1523. First edition the only Wittenberg printing of ten 1523 printings identified by Benzing. 8 pp. Title printed within historiated woodcut border; woodcut initial. 4to. Later plain wrappers. Small spot of adhesive to right edge of title page with offsetting to following leaf negligible light foxing. Provenance: "H.S." monogram bookplate with inscription dated 1776; William R. Whittingham ex libris dated 1856; Maryland Diocesan Library; General Theological Seminary bookplates and inkstamps. First edition the only Wittenberg printing of ten 1523 printings identified by Benzing. 8 pp. Title printed within historiated woodcut border; woodcut initial. 4to. "The earliest and shortest" of Luther's liturgical writings this work laid the ground for the formal Latin and German orders of service Luther would issue later in 1523 and in 1526 Korthals. It was written as a letter to the town of Leisnig where Luther had spent extensive time developing a Reformed church order for the parish in 1522 and which asked for his help again in 1523. Recent controversies in Wittenberg meant that this was a delicate task. "After he had rejected Karlstadt's violent reformation of worship Luther could not just reinstate the traditional order of worship. He had to point out how the former way of worship.was undesirable without supporting revolution" Korthals. In the letter Luther emphasizes the centrality of the sermon which he considered Catholic liturgy to have supplanted in favor of Scripture reading and hymns. William R. Whittingham 1805-1879 graduated the General Theological Seminary in 1825 and was named librarian of the newly founded school. He later accepted a position on the faculty in 1836. Whittingham was consecrated the fourth Bishop of Maryland in 1840 and served in that capacity until his death. Bishop Whittingham's important theological library became the core of the Maryland Diocese library which was in turn transferred to the General Theological Seminary. Like other early publications by Luther scarce with no copies appearing at auction since 1978. Korthals "How the Reformers Dealt with Change in the Church" 2004. Benzing 1615; VD16 L 7305; Luther J. Titeleinfassungen der Reformationszeit 58 [Lukas Cranach and Christian Döring] unknown books