[Rarebooks] For Sale: Pa.-Dutch Hand-Book, 1879

[Norman Kane]

We can offer:

RAUCH, E.H.   RAUCH'S PENNSYLVANIA HAND-BOOK. A BOOK FOR INSTRUCTION. 
. . .   Mauch Chunk, Pa.: E. H. Rauch, Printer & Publisher, 1879.
12mo, original cloth stamped in blind and gold, 238. [1] pages, light 
spotting on covers but a well-preserved copy. (Vocabulary, phrases, 
&c. The last page contains an advt. for Rauch's newspaper, The Carbon 
County Democrat, "the
only paper containing the regular Pennsylvania Dutch productions by Pit
Schweffelbrenner," (several of whose sketches are given in this book.)
(In case you would wish to pray in Pa.-German, it begins, "Unser fodder, du os
im Himmel bisht ..."  Mauch Chunk has since become Jim Thorpe.)   $95.00

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