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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Braght, Tieleman Jans Van. Der Blutige Schau-Platz oder Märtyrer-Spiegel der Tauffs Gesin[n]ten. Engraved frontispiece
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Braght, Tieleman Jans Van. Der Blutige Schau-Platz oder Märtyrer-Spiegel der Tauffs Gesin[n]ten. Engraved frontispiece (dampstained, frayed, and loose, with hole causing slight image loss). 56, 478, [4]; [14], 949, [11] pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, contemporary leather over wooden boards with brass cornerpieces, badly worn, needs rebacking; dampstaining in lower margins at beginning, dark stain through 2S2-2T2, lacks rear free endpaper. 19th-century Lancaster County ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper. Ephrata: Brotherhood Press, 1748-49
- Notes: first complete edition in german of Braght's mammoth Anabaptist martyrology, translated by the Pennsylvania German clergyman John Peter Miller (see DAB); the original version in Dutch was first published in 1660. "The largest book printed at the Brotherhood Press. The Ephrata Brethren were three years engaged upon its printing and binding... The edition consisted of twelve hundred copies... The engraved frontispiece, representing the army of martyrs marching to Heaven, which was probably executed in Holland, is generally missing, as the design was offensive to the Mennonites"--Evans 6256.
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