Villee, Herman W. (sold)
Herman W. Villee (1789-1842), also known as Herman William DeVille, was a French born German speaking printer active in Lancaster, PA, during the early part of the 19th Century. Villee has a lucrative business printing in German for the local Amish or Pennsylvania Dutch community. He issued several simple but elegantly engraved religious broadsides, as well as marriage and birth certificates, and reprinted government documents in German.
Extremely rare Amish or Pennsylvania Dutch allegorical broadside printed in Lancaster, PA.
Das ewige Leben und die ewige Verdammniss. (Eternal Life and Eternal Damnation)
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A rare c. 1820 Amish or Pennsylvania Dutch allegorical fraktur or broadside illustrating the paths to heaven and hell. This broadside was issued in Lancaster, PA, by Herman W. Villee. The view appears to be a woodblock engraving. At the top, a grand city is ... (more details)