Prayer against the plague in Hamburg. No U.S. copies.

[Plague].  Gebeht / Um Abwendung der Contagion, So gleich nach dem ordentlichen Kirchen-Gebeht zu sprechen Erschienen. Hamburg: Gedruckt bey Conrad Neumann/ E.E. Hoch-Weisen Rahts Buchdrucker, s.a. [c. 1710]. 4to [20.4 x  16.1cm], [2] ff., with woodcut initials, title-page vignette, and tail-piece. Unbound and uncut. Toned, small loss to blank outer margin of first leaf, contemporary ownership inscription on title page. 
 
 
Very rare (no U.S. copies) circa-1710 prayer printed in Hamburg and imploring God to spare that city from the ravages of the plague then sweeping Europe. God did not listen: Between 1711 and 1713, perhaps ten to fifteen percent of Hamburg’s population died from the plague.
 
The prayer—a simple bifolium—was intended to be read after the “normal church services” (“nach dem ordentlichen Kirchen-Gebeht zu sprechen”). It asks God to stay his “angry hand,” to halt the “Plage der Pestilentz,” and to free “our city and region and other cities and regions” from the contagion. 
 
The piece is undated, but another issue of the prayer, also printed by Conrad Neumann (and equally rare), carries the date of 1710, placing it before the full outbreak in Hamburg.
 
This outbreak of the plague is associated with the Great Northern War (1700-1721) and affected areas around the Baltic Sea and East-Central Europe from 1708 to 1712.
 
 
OCLC and KVK locate no U.S. examples of this piece (or the issue dated 1710). Both are very rare in European census.
 
*VD17 23:687887A; VD18 90969219 (issue dated 1710).