Phaedon

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 254

MENDELSSOHN, MOSES

Phaedon

FIRST EDITION ff. 6, pp. 309, (1). Foxed. Contemporary half-calf, spine gilt, upper portion of spine damaged. 12mo Meyer, Mendelssohn Bibliographie, no. 138

Berlin and Stettin: Friedrich Nicolai 1767

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $400

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." A. Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study (1973) p. 140