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[Births and Baptism] Geburts und Tauf Zeugniss

[Births and Baptism] Geburts und Tauf Zeugniss

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[Births and Baptism] Geburts und Tauf Zeugniss
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Pottsville, Pennsylvania: Printed by Georg Philipp Lippe ("Schuylkill Demokrat"), 1859. Broadside, 13" x 9"; sheet size, 17" x 14". Text within hand-colored ornamental border, blanks completed in manuscript. CONDITION: Very good, light creasing, a few small stains at margins, short tears, loss to upper-right corner, some oxidation to coloring; no losses to the text or border. CONDITION: Very good, light creasing, a few small stains at margins, short tears, loss to upper-right corner, some oxidation to coloring; no losses to the text or border. A delightful Pennsylvania-German birth and baptism certificate featuring a hand-colored "typotecture" border incorporating elements of the fraktur tradition. This broadside records the birth, on 29 June 1859, of one Allen Albert, the son of one David Bemer and his wife Maria (née Miller). The text is enclosed within an ornamental border consisting of the "architectural" elements typically found in the style of printing aptly termed "typotecture" by Richard Sheaff and the cherubs and angels found in most fraktur birth and baptism certificates. The whole is surmounted by a federal eagle. George Philipp Lippe (1816-1882) immigrated to the United States in 1849, evidently as part of the wave of immigration caused by the Revolution of 1848. He settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where he established himself as a printer, moving to Philadelphia in the 1860s. The inclusion of the eagle at the top of the broadside is an unusual element for a birth and baptism certificate and may be an indication of the patriotic regard of Lippe and his fellow recent immigrants for their new country. Electronic copy only in OCLC. A google search locates a single original at Franklin & Marshall College, also hand-colored. REFERENCES: Earnest, Russell and Corinne. Flying Leaves and One-Sheets: Pennsylvania German Broadsides, Fraktur and Their Printers (New Castle, Delaware, 2005), p. 226 (for Lippe biography); "German Settlement in Pennsylvania : An Overview" at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania online.
An Essay on the life of George Washington; Commander in chief of the American Army, through the Revolutionary War; and the first President of the United States

An Essay on the life of George Washington; Commander in chief of the American Army, through the Revolutionary War; and the first President of the United States by Bancroft, Aaron

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An Essay on the life of George Washington; Commander in chief of the American Army, through the Revolutionary War; and the first President of the United States
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Bancroft, Aaron
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James Arsenault & Company (United States)
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Worcester: Thomas and Sturvtevant 1807. Hardcover. 8vo (8.5" x 5.25"), original full calf. Frontis. port., vii, 552 pp. Early ownership inscription of "Curtis Stearns" in ink at front pastedown. CONDITION: Good, worn binding, .5" crack at front foot of spine, .25" loss at head of spine, dampstain on front pastedown and preliminaries, ink impression on ffep of ownership inscription, 2" tear at foot of pp. 1, light foxing throughout. First edition of this popular early biography of George Washington, written by important Congregationalist Minister and American Antiquarian Society founder Aaron Bancroft. Published just eight years after the death of George Washington, this biography emerged from Aaron Bancroft's wish to provide "the great body of his countrymen" an accessible, one-volume "memorial" of the man "who was preeminently distinguished as Soldier and a Statesman." Bancroft, who graduated from Harvard in 1778 and was present as a minuteman at the battles of Lexington and Concord, settled in Worcester, Mass. in the mid 1780s. Although his dissenting religious views slowed his success, his "high character, ability and public spirit won him a widespread esteem which was heightened" by this "popular" and "often reprinted" biography (DNB). He played an important role in the foundation of Unitarianism, and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a founder of the American Antiquarian Society. His friend John Adams praised his writings as "a chain of diamonds set in links of gold" (DNB).  REFERENCES: Howes B86; Sabin 3096; Shaw & Shoemaker 12038; Dictionary of American Biography.
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Historical Sketches of North Carolina, from 1584 to 1851. Compiled from original records, official documents, and traditional statements; with biographical sketches of her distinguished statesmen, jurists, lawyers, soldiers, divines, etc. Illustrated with engravings by Wheeler, John H.

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Historical Sketches of North Carolina, from 1584 to 1851. Compiled from original records, official documents, and traditional statements; with biographical sketches of her distinguished statesmen, jurists, lawyers, soldiers, divines, etc. Illustrated with engravings
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Wheeler, John H.
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Philadelphia, (PA): Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1851. First edition. 8vo. Two volumes in one: 138; 480 pp. Plates, map. Includes a brief history of each county in the state. Howes W-323. Thornton 14720. Foxed, old tideline through lower portion of early text, owners' notes on endpapers and half-title, lacking blank endpapers front and rear, a serviceable copy. Original cloth, rebacked with black cloth tape, new printed paper spine label. (3637).

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