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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Salomon Gessner. The Death of Abel.
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$200 - $300
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Printed & Manuscript Americana
Description
Description: (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Salomon Gessner. The Death of Abel. xxi, 201 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, worn; lacking blank leaf A12, worn, throughout with several closed tears, leaves H10 and K4 defective, with slight text loss to several other leaves; early inscriptions and later bookplate on endpapers. - Philadelphia: W. Bradford, 1762
Footnote: The first translation of German literature ever published in America, according to Wilkens, "Early Influence of German Literature in America," Americana Germanica III:2 (1899), pages 102, 164. Mary Collyer was the translator. Evans 9125. None others known at auction since 1988.
Footnote: The first translation of German literature ever published in America, according to Wilkens, "Early Influence of German Literature in America," Americana Germanica III:2 (1899), pages 102, 164. Mary Collyer was the translator. Evans 9125. None others known at auction since 1988.