Phaedon.

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Lot 177

MENDELSSOHN, MOSES

Phaedon.

FIRST EDITION. ff. 6, pp. 309, (1). Ex-library, trace foxed. Contemporary boards, rebacked. 8vo Meyer, Mendelssohn Bibliographie, no. 138

Berlin and Stettin: Friedrich Nicolai 1767

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

First edition of Mendelssohn's German adaptation of the Platonic dialogue Phaedo, on the immortality of the soul."The work that would establish Mendelssohn's world-wide renown and win him the title 'the German Socrates' was the dialogue Phaedon." See A. Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study (1973) p. 140.