3 devotional books of the 18th c., in German and Danish, with contemp. binding.

1. Den forordnede Nye Kirke-Psalme-Bog efter hans Kongl. Majestets allernaadigste befaling […] til Trykken befordret af Th. Kingo, D. [...]. Copenhague, N. Moller, 1759. 12mo: 308 pp. (trimmed close to edge, mss notes on the flyleaves). Black morocco, gilt fillets and roll frame, fleuron in the corners, 2 chiselled clasps with hallmarks "P" and "82", and engr. provenance mark, five raised bands on spine decorated with gilt roll and a sm. rosette, all edges chiselled and gilt (sl. cracking on spine). Book of Psalms ed. by Thomas Kingo (1634-1703), Danish poet and Lutheran bishop of Funen. Lutheran catechism at the end. Woodcut frontisp. by Christoph Georg Glasing, title in red and black. Prov. "APRD" (engr. mention on a clasp). - Anne Rasmusdatter, 14th April 1767 (ms. mention). - Bryling, 15th Feb. 1783 (id.). - Sig. Heinegaard (id.). - Peter Andersen (id.). With 2 autogr. letters sign. Heinegaard, ca. 1810, and Rasmus Petersen Heinegaard, 1814.
2. Im Namen Jesu! Die Heil. Bibel, Alt- und Neues Testaments, nach der Uebersetzung Doct. Martin Luthers [...], Auch ein Gebet- und Gesang-Buch, herausgegeben samt einer Vorrede von D. Joh. Frider. Mayern, P.P. [...]. Alt Stettin [Szczecin], widow J.F. Spiegel, (1762). 8vo: 23-[1] pp., 576-158-[2] ff., 34-12-127-[3] pp. (foxing throughout, sm. hole in the last leaf). Black morocco on bevelled wooden boards decorated with blind fillets and sm. tool frame, 4 chiselled silver corners, central oval plate with engr. provenance marks, 2 chiselled clasps, all decorated with latticework and palmettes, four raised bands on spine decorated with blind fillets, all edges chiselled and gilt (sm. pieces missing on turn-ins, spine sl. curved). Old and New Testaments, and "Auserlesenes Gesang-Buch" have their own title-page, the 1st printed in red and black, the 3rd dated 1762. The foreword, dated March 1708, is the work of the German Lutheran theologian Johann Friedrich Mayer (1650-1712), professor of theology at Wittenberg University. Ref. Metzger, Heinz Dietrich - Gesangbücher in Württemberg. Stuttgart-Weimar, 2002, num. 1722-510 (2nd Spiegel ed.: 1722). - Not in Darlow & Moule. Prov. "J.C. [...], "M.S." (engr. mentions partly erased).
3. Seibt, Karl Heinrich - Das Tägliche Opfer eines wahren Christen, oder Auserlesene Gebethe zum kirchlichen Gebrauche [...]. Glatz, F. Pompejus, 1799. 16mo: [4]-201-[3] pp. (sl. browning, some foxing). Black velvet on bevelled wooden boards decorated with a large rococo silver metal frame designed with cut and embossed palms and flowers, central oval plate richly framed, with engr. cypher on the upper board, 1 clasp, flat spine with 3 silver metal plates decorated with a large flower and bound to the frames of the boards with hinges, a.e.g. (endpapers renewed). Collection of exercises of piety, by a German Catholic theologian and educator (1735-1806) established in Bohemia. Text framed, woodcut front. Prov. "LM" (engr. cypher on oval plate).