CAMPE, JOACHIM HEINRICH. Geloth Ha’Aretz HaChadasha al Yedei Christoph Columbus [“The Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus”]. Translated from German to Hebrew by Mordechai Aaron Günzburg.

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

n.p.

Place

Vilna

Publication

1823

Description

first hebrew edition. Single leaf by Government Censor in Polish.

references

Vinograd, Vilna 175 (no collation provided)

summary

The translator Mordechai Aaron Günzburg (1795-1846), a native of Salant, Lithuania, received for this work the formal haskamah of R. Abraham Abele [Posweller], Av-Beth-Din of Vilna who explains how the momentous discovery of the New World provides man a greater appreciation of how wondrous and vast is God's creation.

pp. (16), 72; (8), 59 (i.e., 60); (4), 52. Ex-library, trimmed. Modern boards. 8vo

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