Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch, Enthaltend Geistreiche Lieder und Psalmen, Zum Allgemeinen Gebrauch des Wahren Gottesdienstes
Lancaster, PA: Johann Bar, 1841. Hardcover. leather boards w/ raised spine bands. 423 pgs; 19 additional pgs. Good (scratches & edge-wear to boards; rubbing to corners. chip/small section missing from spine top. 1.5 half crack to back hinge; front hinge beginning to crack; both firmly attached. stylish previous owners name to cover endpaper; handwriting to back cover pastedown. heavy foxing throughout.). Item #183361
Latches missing from boards. Primarily text with some bars of music interspersed. In 1819, at the age of 23, Johann Bar or John Bear, printed the first Bible for the Pennnsylvania Dutch community of Lancaster, PA. This is his edition of worship psalms. A nice piece of Pennsylvania German history. "Part 1 includes 62 psalms; part 2 includes 390 hymns plus 3 appendices containing 35, 32 and 14 hymns. Name of melody to be used with each hymn keyed with melody index; melody printed at beginning of hymn for which it is named."--FirstSearch.
OCLC: 13144888
Price: $85.00