CAMPE, JOHANN HEINRICH. Metzi’ath Ha’aretz Hachadasha [on the discovery of America by Columbus]

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(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

CAMPE, JOHANN HEINRICH. Metzi’ath Ha’aretz Hachadasha [on the discovery of America by Columbus]

FIRST HEBREW EDITION. Translated by Moses Frankfurt-Mendelsohn. Hebrew-Yiddish glossary. Navigational illustration pp.(20),1-175,(2). Opening and closing leaves detached, pp.63-64 torn with considerable loss. Contemporary boards, detached. 8to

Altona: Samuel & Judah Bonn 1807

Est: $400 - $600

The translator was the uncle of Rabbi S. R. Hirsch. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch [A Biography] (1996) p.325