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Lot 251
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3 vols. 3 vols.
19th-Century Pennsylvania-German Children's Books & C: Weems, M(ason) L(ocke). Das Leben der Georg Waschington. Lebanon: Jacob Schnee, 1810. 12mo, contemp. sheep; worn & rubbed, covers slightly warped. Portrait + 6 plates (frontis. repaired, plate margins often torn away, 1 plate with chip extending into the image). Dampstaining to title, other staining & spotting. Arndt 1761; American Imprints 21999. * Das Milchmadchen. Philadelphia: Conrad Zentler, 1817. 12mo, orig. bds.; worn & darkened, spine gone, front cover detached, back joint cracked. Frontis. Some internal spotting. Arndt 2234 (locating 1 copy); this edition not recorded by American Imprints, see 44841 for the edition of 1818. * Knecht, Leonhard. Eine Auswahl Reim-Gebaete. Millgrove, Bushkill Township [Pa]: Samuel Siegfried, 1835. 12mo, orig. wrappers; worn, spine mostly chipped away. Internal staining & spotting. Shoemaker, Checklist of Imprints of the German Press of Northampton County, Penn., p. 51; Not recorded by American Imprints. Milllgrove is now Aluta. This book of rhyming prayers was intended instruction, especially as an aid to memorization useful to parents & teachers.
