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ANON. Gulliver Redivivus; Or the Curious And Entertaining Travels and Adventures of the Renowned Baron Munchausen, Including A Tour of the United States Of America In The Year 1803; And The Two First Chapters Of A Second Tour In 1810. Nineteenth
edition[Cont.] New York, Printed for the Editor. [Isaac Riley], 1816, First American Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo. 2 + 71 p. p. front. 10 FP Pls. Very Good/None. No.ΒΆ [Cont.] with plates.-corrected, improved and enlarged. 12mo, XI, 190Pp. + 5 FP etchings after Rowlandson. First American Edition. This is in the spirit of Campe, if not by him. It includes adventures in Boston, Hartford, New Haven, NYC, Phila. Halifax, Quebec[and the countryside, nearby], Niagara Falls. With some satire at the expense of American medicine and science. The edition number follows that of English Campe editions, from American editions alone there were, in fact, only 2 earlier edition, in 1805 and 1812. OCLC notes no paper copies of either, and a defective copy was used for the photos of one of the fiches. The 1812 edition is said to have 5 plates, but a copy, used for Microfiches, includes 6 plates for our edition, although all paper copies noted have 5. Shaw 38306. OCLC, 4 Locs [G'getown, Clarke, PSU, Wash. & Lee]. ~Orig. calf, Mro. label, ruled lines, Fr. Fr. EP loose, OW VG..
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