Johann Lorenz Mosheims Sitten-Lehre der Heiligen Schrift
Contributors: Miller, Johann Peter, 1725-1789; Werder
Edition: Dritte, vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. / Mit Röm. Käyserl. Königl. Pohln. und Churfürstl. Sächs. allergnädigsten Freyheiten.
Publisher: Bey Christian Friedrich Weygand
Published: 1742
Place of publication: Helmstädt
Language: ger
Subjects: Theology; Quakers; Mennonites; Indians of North America; Social life and customs; Alcohol use
Other titles: Sitten-Lehre der Heiligen Schrift.
Work titles: Sitten-Lehre
Notes: Volume 1 is the third enlarged edition and printed in 1742; vol. 2 is the second, enlarge edition and printed in 1743; vol. 3 is the second, enlarged edition and printed in 1749; vol. 4 is the first edition and printed in 1746; vol. 5 is the first edition and printed in 1761; vol. 6 is the first edition and printed in 1762; vol. 7 is the first edition and printed in 1765; vol. 8 is the first edition and printed in 1767; vol. 9 is the first edition and printed in 1770.

Colophon in vol. 9 reads: Weissenfels, gedruckt bey Caspar Simon Ise.

Title page of vol. 7 reads: Johann Lorenz von Mosheim Sitten-Lehre der Heiligen Schrift. Siebenter Theil. Verfasset von Johann Peter Miller, and has imprint: Halle und Helmstädt: Bey Johann Friedrich Weygand, 1765.

Title page of vol. 8 reads: Johann Lorenz von Mosheim Sitten-Lehre der Heiligen Schrift. Achter Theil. Verfasset von Johann Peter Miller, and has imprint: Gottingen und Leipzig: in der Weygandischen Buchhandlung, 1767.

Title page of vol. 9 reads: Johann Lorenz von Mosheim Sitten-Lehre der Heiligen Schrifft. Neunter und letzter Theil. Verfasset von Johann Peter Miller. Nebst einem hauptregister über alle neun Theile, and has imprint: Gottingen und Leipzig: in der Weygandischen Buchhandlung, 1770.

Text printed in two parallel columns.

Text written primarily in German with some notes and passages in  English, French, Greek and Latin.

Includes several sections of American interest: vol. 1, p. 262-263 has a discussion of the indigenous peoples of America and their character as savages; vol. 6, p. 286-287 contains a discussion of alcohol and its effect on the indigenous peoples of America; vol. 9, p. 46 has a discussion of Quakers and Mennonite sects and their legal status in the laws of Pennsylvania.

Pagination: v. 1: [26], 450, 452-576, [32] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [40], 538, [46] p.; v. 3: [20], 536, [52] p.; v. 4: 512, [56] p.; v. 5: [12], 544, [20] p.; v. 6: [32], 607, [17] p.; v. 7: 697, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 8: [16], 392 p.; v. 9: 41, [3], 644 p.

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Errata: vol. 9, p. 644.

Includes indexes.

Engraved printer's vignettes on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.