•  Shaw & Shoemaker 19531; O’Callaghan 102; Rumball-Petre, Rare Bibles, 185. Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding scuffed and rubbed, spine extremities chipped. Front free endpaper excised; half-title with old ink stain partially obscuring two letters of “Nouveau.” Foxed throughout; some corners bumped. One leaf with two tears through text, without loss; one leaf with upper outer corner torn away, with loss of words in five lines (each side); three leaves torn along inner margins (not touching text) and another torn from outer margin, extending into text without loss.

Arndt and Eck cite Bender, who says “This first American Mennonite Hymnbook isnot to be confused with one of similar title printed by Saur at Germantown in 1753, called erroneously by Seidensticker and Flory a Mennonite hymnbook.” Each portion of this item has a separate title-page, with the second section's title-page reading Sammlung altre und neuer Geistreichen Gesänge....

•  Arndt & Eck 1812; Shaw & Shoemaker 23165.   Contemporary mottled calf with original, functional clasps, spine with later but not recent gilt-stamped leather title and publication labels; leather cracked along joints and spine, edges and extremities rubbed. Pages browned as usual and waterstained as often. Two leaves with outer margins torn, resulting in loss of a few letters; one leaf torn from outer margin,tear touching text without loss. Some corners dog-eared. (20648)

•  Not in O'Callaghan; not in Darlow & Moule; Shaw & Shoemaker 22372. Treed sheep; flat spine with gilt rules and a black leather title label, gilt-lettered. Lightly rubbed, dry with some cracking. Inside, scattered spots of light browning and some chipping in the margins, the latter not affecting text.

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Copies with all seven plates and the map are not as common as they once were.

•  Hills 209; O’Callaghan p. 108; Shaw & Shoemaker 24829; Wright, Early American Bibles, 352–53; Rumball-Petre, Rare Bibles, 188. Contemporary sheep, spine with raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding and spine label rubbed, with a few pinpoint holes of insect damage to spine. Small ticket of a private collector on front pastedown; one plate with inked ownership inscription dated 1824 on the reverse. Folding map torn along inner edge, tear repaired some time ago; map foxed, with small edge chips. Pages age-toned, with some spotting; edges tattered, occasionally with loss of a few letters in shouldernotes. Two signatures (one in index) separated, one with outer edges chewed, affecting a number of words; one leaf torn across; one plate with short tear to outer margin not touching image; one leaf with portion of first few lines torn away and now laid in. Botanical matter laid in, as well as that other thing.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 27881.   Publisher's sheep, red leather gilt-stamped title label and gilt rules on spine; rubbed and corners bumped with leather cracked over joints. Offsetting from turn-ins to endpapers and first/last leaves, with some pencil marks to front pastedown; notable age-toning and foxing throughout except to pp. 379–402, which makes this an interesting volume for book-studies teaching purposes. One page with impression faint at beginning of most lines; otherwise, a clean and complete text.  (21738)

•  Hills 259; Shaw & Shoemaker 30867. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding rubbed, front joint cracked, back joint starting from top, spine extremities chipped. Front pastedown with private collector’s small bookplate, title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin. Pages age-toned.

Provenance: Front pastedown with small booklabel of prominent collector Michael Zinman.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 34103; O’Callaghan, 126–27; Rumball-Petrie 193; not in Darlow & Moule. Contemporary sheep, framed and panelled in blind; leather abraded, with spine greatly rubbed and pitted (no label). Front pastedown with inscription scraped away. Pages age-toned, with some foxed and the last few waterstained. One leaf with tear from outer margin, touching a few letters. Two leaves bound in upside-down.

Provenance

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 47213; Hills 375. Contemporary sheep double-panelled in blind, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title label; binding rubbed and unevenly faded, leather cracking over spine. Foxing ranging from mild to severe; last few leaves waterstained; some dog-earing. One worm track to upper outer margin of a few leaves. New Testament lacking title. Well used but not abused; an evocative copy.