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

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $2,000

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Samuel & Judah Bonn

Place

Altona

Publication

1807

Description

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

references

Vinograd, Altona 192

summary

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

pp.(20),1-175,(2). Few light stains in places, inscription on front past-down. Later marbled boards, gently rubbed at extremites. 12mo

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