Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 180
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Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
PSALMANAZAR, GEORGE, pseud. Memoirs of ****. Commonly known by the Name of George Psalmanazar; A Reputed Native of Formosa. Written by Himself. In Order to be Published after His Death . . . Second Edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. [2], ii, 307 pages. 8vo, later 19th-century 1/2 calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip; title torn in upper outer corner touching one letter and mounted, last leaf mounted. London: R. Davis et al., 1765

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First published the preceding year, the autobiography of the literary impostor known for his fraudulent 1704 book on Formosa. Hill 1400.