Johann Friedrich Starck's ... Tagliches Handbuch in guten und bosen Tagen : enthaltend: Aufmunterungen, Gebate und Lieder, zum Gebrauch gesunder, betrubter, kranker und sterbender Christen : welchem beygefugt ist ein tagliches Gebatbuchlein fur Schwangere, Gebarender und Unfruchtbare
Johann Friedrich Starck's ... Daily handbook in good and bad days:containing: encouragements, buildings and songs, for the use of healthy, dejected, sick and dying Christians: which one is a daily one Booklet for pregnant women, women in labor and sterile / looked through, changed and increased, by M. Johann Jacob Starck ... with five pictures
Responsibility
durchgesehen, verandert und vermehrt, von M. Johann Jacob Starck ... mit funf Bildern.
538, 106 p., [4] leaves of plates (incl. frontis.) : ill., port. ; 19 cm.
Notes
Tagliches Gebaet-Buchlein fur Schwangere, Gebarende und Sechswochnerinnen. Harrisburg, 1830. has special t.p. and separate paging, collation continuous.
Plates bear the page number of the pages they face.
Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.
Inscription on back of front cover: Dieses schone Gebat-Buch, isi: das Eigentbum, der Witwe, Elizabeth Neff in Manor Township -- Lancaster County-- Pennsylvanien. Du erhorest Gebath darum komt alles Fleisch zu dir. -- Die wahrhaftizen Unbaten, Gott im Geist imd Wahrheit an. Bittet so wird euch gegeben. Der herr ist nahe denen, die Ihn aurufen, allen, die ZIhn Ernst nurufen.
Woven jacquard coverlet with red roses, blue 9-petaled flowers, 8-point stars, red birds, and blue rose trees.
Center field: alternate stripes of blocks of red roses with blue 9-petaled flowers encircled by small 8-point stars with 2 larger stars between flowers.
Outer border: Alternate redbirds and blue rose treets on 3 sides.
Head edge: Bound with commercial red twill tape.
Center seam: Self fringe on 3 edges. Side wool fringes are looped.
Corner blocks: "Made by J. Witmer Manor Township for Hennah Sauder 1839"
Pennsylvania Coat of Arms once hung over the judge's bench at the old Lancaster county courthouse (1786-1853). Lancaster served as the capitol of of the Commonwealth of PA from 1799 to 1812. Made of oak,
Framed flag of John Wise used on Balloon flights. 13 stars, 7 red stripes, 6 white stripes. Attached note reads, "This flag has accompanied 239 aerial voyages - has travelled in the air over 11,000 miles - has been constantly the harbinger of good fortune and no serious accident ever occurred while it was present. It is a talisman of good luck. It is over 34 years old and was made in 1834." Bdly faded.