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The death of Abel : in five books / from the German of Gessner, ; with New idyls.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PT1886.Z37 C6 1802
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788.
- Standardized Title:
- Tod Abels. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Cain (Biblical figure)--Fiction.
- Cain.
- Cain (Biblical figure).
- Abel--Fiction.
- Abel.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 275 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed by Thos. L. Plowman., 1802.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Der Tod Abels.
- Translated by Mary Collyer.
- Engraved title page signed: Harrison Junr., sculpt.
- Title page vignette and frontispiece portrait of the author signed: D. Edwin, sc.
- Signatures: A6 B-U4 X2 Y-2N4 (2N4 verso blank).
- ''New idyls, by S. Gessner. With a letter to M. Fuslin, on landscape painting; and The two friends of Bourbon. By M. Diderot''--p. [151]-275.
- Local Notes:
- Translator's preface (p. [ix]-xi) bound after the advertisement for the Idyls (p. [153]).
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker 2316
- Contains:
- New idyls.
- OCLC:
- 18465756
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