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Das Herz des Menschen : ein Tempel Gottes oder eine Werkstätte des Satans : in zehn Figuren sinnbildlich dargestellt : zur Erweckung und Beförderung des christlichen Sinnes

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13351
Author
Gossner, Johannes,
Edition
Stereotyp-ausg.
Date of Publication
1870.
Call Number
240 H582
Alternate Title
Geistlicher Sittenspiegel.
Author
Gossner, Johannes,
Edition
Stereotyp-ausg.
Place of Publication
New-York
Publisher
Wilhelm Radde ...,
Date of Publication
1870.
Physical Description
68 p. : 10 ill. (wood-engravings) ; 19 cm.
Notes
In bluish green pictorial wrappers.
Wood-engravings printed with letterpress formes; each wood-engraving has blank page on reverse of leaf.
This is a late edition of a book which was immensely popular among the Pennsylvania Germans. Many editions were printed both in Germany and America.
"Aus dem Französichen übersetzt und im Jahre 1732 zu Würzburg von dem Universitätskupferstecher unter dem Titel: Geistlicher Sittenspiegel ... herausgegeben." However, according to the Neue deutsche Biographie the author is G.E. Gossner, according to Holzmann-Bohatta, G.E. Gossner and P.F. Pöschel. Attributed to J.N.J. Schmidt in the 1891 edition.
Subjects
Christian life.
Emblems.
Emblem books - 19th century - Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Pöschel, Philipp Friedrich.
Schmidt, Johannes Nikolaus Jürgens.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
240 H582
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Stones : a guide to some remarkable eighteenth century gravestones

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16504
Author
Willsher, Betty.
Date of Publication
1979, c1978.
Call Number
736.5 W741
Responsibility
by Betty Willsher and Doreen Hunter ; photos. by Betty Willsher.
ISBN
0800874471 :
9780800874476
Author
Willsher, Betty.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Taplinger Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
1979, c1978.
Physical Description
xi, 139 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 133.
Subjects
Sepulchral monuments - Scotland
Christian art and symbolism - Scotland.
Emblems.
Additional Author
Hunter, Doreen M.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
736.5 W741
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