[Sauer, Christopher, printer]

Zionitischer Weyrauchs  Hugel oder: Myrrhen Berg. Germantown: Christopher  Sauer, 1739

8vo (6 1/8 x 4 in.; 155 x 102 mm).  Decorative  border of printer’s ornaments on title, 4– and 2–line woodcut initials; moderately browned throughout, rust-hole in leaf Ddd2 affecting two words, old ownership entry on front flyleaf. Contemporary blind-ruled leather,  four raised bands on spine; extremities worn.

Hildeburn 617; Evans 4466; Robacker, Pennsylvania German Literature, p. 31

moderately browned throughout, rust-hole in leaf Ddd2 affecting two words., old ownership entry on front flyleaf. Contemporary blind-ruled leather, four raised bands on spine; extremities worn.
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First book of the Sauer press and the first colonial book in Gothic type.  Christopher Sauer emigrated from Germany to settle in Germantown, Pennsylvania, where he began his notable career as a printer and publisher with two works of ephemera. The present hymnal, edited by John Peter Miller, was compiled for use in the Ephrata Community where Sauer was an influence.

“As the edition was small and the book was in common use for devotional purposes, it has become extremely scarce, nearly all of the few known copies imperfect” (Hildeburn) .