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GEBURTS UND TAUF-SCHEIN.
Text in German. The framed birth and baptismal certificate has pictures of angels, birds, flowers, the American Eagle and a border that have been crudely printed in yellow and red. Also poetry in German script. This copy was filled in by hand in 1839, documenting the birth and baptism of Cyrus, son of John Bomberger, in Lebanon Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. An early example of American color printing by one of the earliest of American color printers.
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> COLOR PRINTING, NINETEENTH CENTURY
> UNITED STATES, PENNSYLVANIA
> PRINTING HISTORY, NINETEENTH CENTURY
> CHILDREN'S BOOKS, NINETEENTH CENTURY
> GERMAN-AMERICAN
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> Wainwright, Nicholas B., PHILADELPHIA IN THE ROMANTIC AGE OF LITHOGRAPHY
> Wolfe, Richard J., JACOB BIGELOW'S AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, 1817-1821, AN EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGIN, PRINTING, BINDING AND DISTRIBUTION OF AMERICA'S FIRST COLOR PLATE BOOK. WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE MANNER OF MAKING AND PRINTING ITS COLORED PLATES.
> Shoemaker, Alfred L., A CHECK LIST OF IMPRINTS OF THE GERMAN PRESS OF LEHIGH COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1807-1900 WITH BIOGRAPHIES OF THE PRINTERS.
> Fach, Wolfgang (editor), DIE GANZE WELT IST UNSER FELD.
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ATLAS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
(Welsh 307). Reproduced from the original made for Queen Mary's Doll's House. Table of contents. Twelve color maps showing the Britsh Empire nearly at its greatest extent. Printed by Dane & Co. with the company's logo on front free endpaper. Front wrapper bent along middle. Gilding on edges faded. Tanning on endpapers and through text.
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