Phaedon

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $400

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author

MENDELSSOHN, MOSES

printer

Friedrich Nicolai

Place

Berlin and Stettin

Publication

1767

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Meyer, Mendelssohn Bibliographie, no. 138

summary

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

ff. 6, pp. 309, (1). Foxed. Contemporary half-calf, spine gilt, upper portion of spine damaged. 12mo

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