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Boston: Samuel Etheridge for E. And S. Larkin, 1801. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco with marbled boards, endpapers and edges, raised bands, gilt titles and designs. Published Boston: Samuel Etheridge for E. And S. Larkin, 1801. 8vo., xxiv+523pp., no map or plates present. Mild foxing, but clean and attractive text in a very nice binding. A travel hoax and "One of the cleverest volumes of fabricated travels ever produced." Very good. . Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

London : Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1801-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 2 volumes in one. Moderate leather spine over original marbled boards. Lacking map and 1 plate. Tears to engraving of final plate. Offsetting and to pages. Scattered staining. "One of the cleverest volumes of fabricated travel ever produced. The details are so circumstantial, and the mixture of fact and fiction is accomplished with so much skill, that it is not uncommon to find people who do not know that the account of the travels is nothing more than a well-contrived literary deception" Mendelssohn I, p. 408

Dublin: P. Wogan. Good+. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in contemporary three-quarter leather. The spine has been covered with clear tape. No pocket or number on the spine, but library book plate and stamps. ; Ex-Library; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 184+246 pages .

New York: William Durell, 1801. First American edition. Leather_bound. Good. Two volumes bound in one. Translated from the German original. 12. mo in original full tree calf, spine ruled in gilt and with red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Binding worn, rubbed , chip at head of spine, rear board attached but loosened. 254 and 194 pp. Hand color tinted frontispiece engraving precedes title page in both volumes. Text block still firm, scattered foxing throughout.

Dublin: P Wogan, 1801. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. One of the first editions in English of the incredible fabricated African travel narratives from the gentleman known as Zacharias Taurinius. A scarce Dublin imprint. In Two Volumes, Complete. Bound as One. With a fold-out map of Africa. With two engraved frontispieces. One of the first English editions, translated from the German. "One of the cleverest volumes of fabricated travels ever produced. The details are so circumstantial, and the mixture of fact and fiction is accomplished with so much skill, that it is not uncommon to find people who do not know that the account of the travels is nothing more than a well-contrived literary deception" -Mendelssohn. "Christian Friedrich Damberger, whose real name was possibly Zacharias Taurinius, is the pseudonymous author of, or collaborator on, three cleverly contrived hoax narratives of travel, the first published under the name of Joseph Schrodter,… Read More