A rather rare American Bible Society "German" issue New Testament for German-speaking soldiers mustered from Pennsylvania, Indiana, etc., The present the copy of Jacob H. Shaffer, mustered into the Pennsylvania 188th.
A really charming period naive - folk pencil drawing of a Civil War soldier, presumably by Jacob, who also, presumably, never attended art school.
Das Neue Testament Unfers Herrn Und Heilandes Jesu Christi. New-Norg. Americanische Bibel-Besellsdhaft. 1862. 454pp.
A fair copy only, bound in cloth with the rear board and spine cover lacking; binding cocked. Text is shaken but still stable; pages handled.
