Ausbund, das ist: Etliche schöne Christliche Lieder, wie sie in dem Gefangnuss zu Bassau in dem Schloss von den Schweitzer-Brudern . . . gedichtet worden by HYMNS, in German - 1751

Germantown: Christoph Sauer, 1751. Lightly browned, but sheets clean and crisp. Four parts in one volume, 8vo (15.7 x 9.3 cm). I: [10], 812, [6] pages; II: 20 pages; III: 46 pages; IV: 40 pages. Contemporary calf (rebacked, lacks clasps. Provenance: one-page contemporary manuscript index laid-in); Library Company of Philadelphia (bookplate with withdrawn stamps, bookplate of Charles Sower, who gave the book). The second Amish hymnal published in the United States. SCARCE: no copies have sold at auction since 1981 according to ABPC and RBH.

Bound before, as issued: 'Confessio. Oder Bekantnuss' by Thomas von Imbroich, 'Ein warhafftiger Bericht, von den Brüdern im Schweitzerland, .. von dem 1635sten bis in das 1645ste Jahr', and 'Fünff schöne geistliche Lieder .. ', all printed by Sauer in 1752. Evans 6632 (part) and 6847; ESTC W42127, W42128, W42129, W42130.