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Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorfs (weiland Predigers in Bunzlau) Evangelische Liederpsalmen, nebst einem Anhang vorzüglich guter bekannter Lieder mit den nöthigsten Veränderungen
by Woltersdorf, Ernst Gottlieb
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Berlin: Friedrich Späthen, 1802. Hardcover. Very Good +. vi, 816 p.; 17 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment: Woltersdorfs Liederpsalmen. Blind-tooled decoration on both boards. All page edges gilt. Blind-tooled decoration on upper and lower page edges. Very unusual blue endpapers. Green ribbon bookmark. Woodcut title vignette and head-piece. Former owner inscription on blank leaf following front free endpaper, dated 1844. One of the most outstanding hymnists of Protestantism, Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorf (1725-1761) also founded an orphanage in Bunzlau. As is common with German hymnals of this era, this contains words but no music. Very scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: lightly rubbed; occasional lightly foxing; otherwise, clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004163
- Title
- Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorfs (weiland Predigers in Bunzlau) Evangelische Liederpsalmen, nebst einem Anhang vorzüglich guter bekannter Lieder mit den nöthigsten Veränderungen
- Author
- Woltersdorf, Ernst Gottlieb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Friedrich Späthen
- Place of Publication
- Berlin
- Date Published
- 1802
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
We have a large stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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