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

AUCTION 7 | Tuesday, June 22nd, 1999 at 1:00

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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. Hand-colored navigational illustration on p. 20 pp.(20),1-175,(2). Signature on title, few light stains. Contemporary marbled boards, spine worn. 8vo Vinograd, Altona 192.

Altona: Bonn Brothers 1807

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $1,300

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