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

Signatures: v. 1: a⁴ (-a4) (a1, a2 versos blank) b² c-d⁴ A-4C⁴ (-4C4) (K1 verso blank) 4D-4G⁴; v. 2: a-e⁴ (a1 verso blank) A-4D⁴ (A1, 4D4 versos blank); v. 3: a⁴ (a1 verso blank) b² A-4E⁴ (A1 verso blank) 4F² (4F2 verso blank); v. 4: a-b⁴ (a1 verso blank) B-4B⁴; v. 5: a⁴ (a1 verso blank) b² A-4A⁴ (A1 verso blank) 4B²; v. 6: a-d⁴ (a1 verso blank) A-4I⁴; v. 7: a⁴ (-a4) (a1 verso blank) b-c⁴ d² (-d2) A-4R⁴ (-4R4) (A1 verso blank) 4S⁴ 4T² (4T2 verso blank); v. 8: *⁻**⁴ (*1, *2 versos blank) A-3C⁴ (A1 verso blank); v. 9: a-e⁴ (a1 verso blank) f² A-4L⁴ (A1, 3U3 versos blank) 4M²

Errata: vol. 9, p. 644

Includes indexes

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

John Carter Brown Library copy has made set with 9 volumes bound in 5 in contemporary full speckled calf

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Frederick Lippitt Fund

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Werder: armorial bookplates on front pastedowns

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