[Rarebooks] OFFER: LOUISIANA BROADSIDE POEM, CIRCA 1854-1861:

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BURGHALDER, CHRISTIAN.:  THE SPIRIT WORLD. A VISION, SEEN AND HEARD 
IN LEWISBURG, ON THE BORDERS OF LAKE PONCHARTRAIN, IN THE MONTH OF 
JULY, 1854. by Christian Burghalder. Broadside, with wide margins, 
approx. 4to size. It is a vision of the last judgement, in 16 four 
lined stanzas of rhymed couplets. Some corrections are made in the 
text in what appears to me to be the same hand as the inscription at 
the top. That is "Compliments of Mrs. Stewart of Holy Rood Lewisburg" 
But it also deals with some other current issues. As here: "I see the 
boundary line from whence/ Comes forth a new creation;/ Its law is 
Total Abstinence;/ Its mark is Separation. Total Abstinence is 
underlined by hand." He published in 1845 a German and English a 
grammar of both. Christian Burghalder also published a book of 31 
pages of poems, "The World and the Church", printed in the Baton 
Rouge, LA, Advocate job office in 1860, which may have printed this 
as well. There is, however, no reason why this could not have been a 
Confederate imprint rather than an ante bellum publication. Unloc. in 
AAS, OCLC, Brown, Hollis, Melvyl, LC, NYPL. Orig.folds, short tear in 
margin outside Dec. border, OW VG.  $875.00

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