Johann Arndts weiland Generalsuperintendentens des Fürstenthums Lüneburg, Sechs Bücher vom wahren Christenthum
Subtitle: nebst desselben Paradisgärtlein : mit neuinventirten Kupfern und Erklärungen derselben, wie auch neu dazu verfertigten Gebetern und einer Vorrede
By: herausgegeben von Adam Struensee ...
Contributors: Struensee, Adam, 1708-1791; Gründler, Gottfried August, d. 1775; Schleuen, Johann David, active 1740-1774
Publisher: Bey Johann Justinus Gebauer
Published: 1763
Place of publication: Halle
Language: ger
Number of pages: 1028
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Devotional literature; Prayers; Lutheran authors; Christian life; Lutheran Church; Prayer
Other titles: Sechs Bücher vom wahren Christenthum; Vom wahren Christenthum
Work titles: Wahres Christenthum
Notes: First published Frankfurt 1605, and in its full form first in 1609 (Neue deutsche Biog.).

T.p. printed in red and black.

Paradisgärtlein has separate title page.

Emblematic ill. have letter-press explanations and poems on versos.

Frontispiece and plate 1 signed: Gründler del. Halae, Schleuen sc. Berolini.

Includes index.

Gesamtkat. der preussischen Bib., 7.84

Binding: early sheep(?) over pasteboard. Spine with 5 raised bands; gold-stamped title in 2nd panel: Joh. Arndts Wahres Christenthum. Endpapers of decorated paper in a floral pattern, partly gilt. The edges gilt and goffered.

Library copy has early owner's initials E.H.H. with rococo shield in decorative border, carried out in col. paints on 2nd front free endpaper. Verso of 1st front free endpaper has 6 lines of verse in brown ink, signed: Droshen den 1en April 1861   Reinhold Modrou; 2nd back free endpaper has 12 additional lines of verse in the same hand. A 3rd signature in brown ink appears on 1st back free endpaper: Friedriecke geb. Lienssman(?)