Box 4
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 24
File — Box: 4, Folder: 24
Identifier: Folder 24
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE
Leaf from the Third Edition of Christopher Saur's German Bible, 1776
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 24
Identifier: Item 24
Scope and Contents
A leaf from the Third Edition of Christopher Saur's German Bible. It was printed by Saur in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1776. Most copies of this edition were destroyed during the Revolution by soldiers who used the paper for cartrages, and in fact only ten known copies exist. The recto side of the page is marked 413 and the verso side is marked 414.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1776