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

AUCTION 16 | Tuesday, June 25th, 2002 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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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 on p.(20). Inscribed and signed by Mendelsohn on front paste-down pp.(20),1-175,(2). Few light stains in places, inscription on front past-down. Later marbled boards, gently rubbed at extremites. 12mo Vinograd, Altona 192

Altona: Samuel & Judah Bonn 1807

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

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