Die Psalmen.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

MENDELSSOHN, MOSES.

printer

Friedrich Maurer

Place

Berlin

Publication

1783

Description

FIRST EDITION. Translated into German. Title- and end-vignettes engraved by J. W. Meil. Book-plate of Dr. Guggenheim.

summary

First edition of Mendelssohn’s German translation of the Book of Psalms which was published the same year as his Bible translation. Mendelssohn had worked for more than ten years on the translation of the Psalms. The first edition was published in German characters and later in Hebrew type with a Hebrew commentary by Joel Löwe. See Meyer, Mendelssohn Bibliographie, no. 298.

pp. xii, 354. Foxed. Contemporary calf boards detached, lacks spine. 8vo.

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