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Pensylvanische Berichte microfilm copies, 1754 [Pennsylvania Reports]

Full Title: Pensylvanische Berichte, Oder: Sammlung Wichtiger Nachtrichten aus dem Natur- und Kirchen-Reich

Microfilm copies of three editions of Christoph Sauer's Pensylvanische Berichte. Sauer [sometimes spelled Sower] was the first to print a German-lang...

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Date:1754-11-16, 1754-12-01, 1754-12-16
Call Number:MFilm Xn 14.2
Format: Electronic
Published: Christoph Sauer, 1693-1758
Subjects and Genres:
Sower, Christopher, 1695-1758
Sauer, Christoph
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Prints, German
Printed Matter
Copyright:Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org)
Online Access:https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/13880
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Summary: Full Title: Pensylvanische Berichte, Oder: Sammlung Wichtiger Nachtrichten aus dem Natur- und Kirchen-Reich

Microfilm copies of three editions of Christoph Sauer's Pensylvanische Berichte. Sauer [sometimes spelled Sower] was the first to print a German-language newspaper in the United States. He operated out of his Germantown print shop in direct competition with Benjamin Franklin. Sauer was the first to bring fraktur type to North America and the first to print a German bible.

This digital record contains 9 images that depict three editions of a microfilm facsimile of Pennsylvanische Berichte from 1754. Berichte was published from 1746-1762 and all editions are available on microfilm at HSP. Berichte was filmed along with Sauer's earlier publication Hoch-Deutsch Pensylvanische Geschicht-Schreiber [1739-1746] which is also available on microfilm.

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