Klinefelter, Walter; Heckman, Marlin L.; Braun, Fritz; Weiser, Frederick S.

ABC Books of the Pennsylvania Germans -- Marriages Performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Lancaster, 1749-1767 [Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 7]

Breinigsville, Pa. Pennsylvania German Society, 1973. Hardcover. viii, 299 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. White cloth with black spine series title, and black cover illustration and title: ABC- und Namen-Büchlein für Kinder. Contents: The ABC Books of the Pennsylvania Germans by Walter Klinefelter -- Abraham Harley Cassel, Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania German American Book Collector by Marlin L. Heckman -- Marriages Performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Lancaster, 1749-1767 by Fritz Braun and Frederick S. Weiser. Klinefelter's ABC Books of the Pennsylvania Germans includes an extensive checklist. Heckman's work contains a useful overview of other 19th-century American book collectors, as well as discussions of Cassel's activities as both book collectors and librarian. The record of marriages performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in Lancaster in the mid-18th century is a valuable genealogical resource for German immigrants to Pennsylvania. In Fine Condition: crisp and clean. Fine. Item #002384

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