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

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Samuel & Judah Bonn

Place

Altona

Publication

1807

Description

FIRST HEBREW EDITION. Translated by Moses Frankfurt-Mendelsohn. With Hebrew-Yiddish glossary. Navigational illustration on p. (20). On front flyleaf, Hebrew dedicatory poem in manuscript

references

Vinograd, Altona 192

summary

The translator, Moses Frankfurt-Mendelsohn, 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, (1 blank), (1), (1 blank). Foxed. Contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt extra, extremeties worn. 12mo

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