Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 250
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Gessner, Salomon; Mary Collyer, translator. 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
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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. Evans 9125. None known at auction since 1988.