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Among the gift was a vellum-bound set of
the complete writings of Martin Luther, printed in Germany between
1660-64; 2 sets of Luther's Bible, with vellum backings; and original
"Breaches Bible," dated 1610; leaves from the first English
translations of the Bible, dating back to 1535; an oversize copy of the
King James translation, dated 1612; and a number of Latin, French, Dutch,
and German biblical editions printed in the middle of the 16th century.
Longstreet continued to add to his collection at Albion into the
mid-1950s. He also donated rare Methodist pictures to the Religion
Department of Albion College. Two are engravings of John Wesley, a
third is of Wesley at the age of six being rescued from the parsonage
fire, and the fourth depicts Bishop Asbury's ordination in Lovely Lane
Chapel in 1784.
- Peterson, Johann Wilhelm. Die Psalmen
Davids nach dem Maafz der erthilten Gabe Shriftu in dem reichestern
Prophestischen Sinn durch den Schiffel Davids auffgeschlesen. Frankfurt
and Leipzig: Carl Friedrich Martini, 1719.
- Hervey, Jakebus. Hervey's Mangelingen
of versameling van kleene geschriften, uitgegeven of nagelaten door
wylen, mit's mans karakter lef, en gedagtenis en een aenhangsel van
opstellen aen hem, en ten zynen verzoeke gescreeven. Alles uit bet
Engelsch vertaeld, en in eene voegleyke orde faemgebragt, 2nd ed.
T'Amsterdam: Pieter Meijer, vooraen op den Vygendam, 1764.
- Shakespears comedies, histories,
& tragedies; being a reproduction in facsimile of the first folio
edition, 1623, from the Chatsworth copy in the possession of the Duke
of Devonshire, K.G., with introduction and census of copies by Sidney
Lee. Oxford, Clarendon press, 1902. Number 759 of the limited
edition of 1,000.
- Gray, Thomas. Elegia scripta in
coemeterio rustico, Latine reddita. Cantabrigić: Typis Academicis
exchudebat J. Bentham, 1762.
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