1768 Das von Jesu Christo dem Richter, Christopher Sauer Germantown, PA Imprint

Description: Das von Jesu Christo dem Richter der Lebendigen und der Todten, aller Creatur zu predigen befohlene ewige Evangelium, von der durch Ihn erfundenen ewigen Erlösung, wodurch alles, was da heisset Teufel, Sünde, Hölle und Tod, ganz und gar vernichtiget ... aus erbarmender Liebe verkündiget; an unzehlich vielen Orten durch diesen Druck verbessert, und nebst Hinzufügung eines neuen Capitels über Hebr. II. v. 16. vom Samen Abrahä handelnd, vermehret von Georg Paul Siegvolck, einem einfältigen Schüler der himmlischen Weisheit. Germantown [Pa.]: Gedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur, 1768. [9], Lancaster County, PA provenance, 175 p. 6.25 x 4", 18mo. In fair condition. Full leather boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine lacking (including headbands), binding exposed. Front hinge split at head and tail; rear hinge split entirely (board attached by cording). Old-hand ink marginalia found on front end-page: "This Property. Lancaster County, Jacob ?". Front gutter split at title page, cording exposed. Toning throughout text-block, some instances of age-staining. Small water or tea dampness stain found on bottom corners of pages 173 to rear paste-down. Binding remains intact, hinges worn. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Johann Christoph Sauer (Christopher Sower, Senior) was born 1693 in Laasphe, a village not far from Marburg, Germany. He came to America in 1724 with his wife and their infant son Christopher (born 1721). In the spring of 1725 the family removed to Ephrata, Pa., where they remained about six years. In 1731 they returned to Germantown and settled there permanently. Christopher Sower, the elder, died in 1758. He was a pharmacist by trade, but is best known for his publishing activities. In 1738 he received a printing outfit from Germany and began at once to print in German for his fellow countrymen in America. Altogether he published over two hundred works in German and English, most of them of a religious nature. His son Christopher became the well-known Bishop of the Church of the Brethren, in Germantown. The name of the first ChristopherSower, printer and publisher, is still retained by the Christopher Sower Publishing Company, of Philadelphia. It was not until after Sauer Sr’s death that the Sauer family’s stronghold over German media was broken. Still, under Johann Christoph Sauer Jr. (1721-1784) the family printing business continued to flourish. Known as one of the wealthiest men in Pennsylvania, Sauer Jr. was a major benefactor and board president of the Germantown Academy, founded in 1760. As a bishop of the German Baptists, he continued his father’s special interest in radical Pietist texts as well as his advocacy of peaceful relations with the Indians. So prominent was Sauer Jr.’s pacifism that he became a target for Revolutionary patriots during the war for American independence. Sauer Jr. did not hide his disapproval of the revolutionaries’ choice of war to redress their grievances. Sauer Jr., however, suffered a dramatic setback for printing his objections to the revolution. Acting on a proclamation of treason by the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council in 1778, the Continental Army arrested Sauer, seized his press, ejected him from his Germantown home, and confiscated all other properties in his estate. Upon his arrest, he was stripped of his clothes and coated in paint as humiliation. The contents of the print shop were sold off for a fraction of their value to other printers, including Henry Miller, who had sided with the revolutionaries. Having lost his home and fortune, Sauer Jr. was reduced to dependence on in-laws for lodging for several years and, without a press, had to make a living as a bookbinder until he died six years later. German gospel text by Georg Klein-Nicolai (1671-1734) PRINTED by Christopher Sauer Jr. 2nd Edition printed 20 years after first (by Sauer Sr.). Lancaster County, PA provenance. RAREA1768LRSL 09/24 - HK2086

Price: 900 USD

Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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