THE ADVENTURES OF A NEW-YEAR'S NIGHT, from the German of Henry Zschokke,

by Dr. Henry Scholl caption title by Heinrich Zschokke

$350 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Philadelphia, PA: 1840. 22 cm. 63 pp. Full leather, gilt tooled borders, spine richly gilt. Chip to head of spine, front joint tender and starting to split at bottom edge. A hand-written translation transcribed, in an elegant script, done for John Fries Frazier, and presented to him Feb. 26, 1840 by the translator Dr. Henry Scholl. Frazier's bookplate is laid down on the front pastedown. Heinrich Zschokke 1771-1848 was a popular German-Swiss writer whose work was often translated into English

• Binding: Leather

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