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De verrezen Gulliver; behelzende de zonderlinge reizen en avonturen, van den Baron van Munchhausen ... Naar den 5. druk uit het Engelsch vertaald.

Title: De verrezen Gulliver; behelzende de zonderlinge reizen en avonturen, van den Baron van Munchhausen ... Naar den 5. druk uit het Engelsch vertaald.
Publication: Te Huaheine, Bij Omai, 's Landsdrukker, 1790.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Neth. 1790 79-205	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

xvi, 221 p. 8 plates (11 figs.); 17 cm.

Uniform Title

Baron Munchausen's narrative of his marvellous travels. Dutch.

Subject

Etching, Dutch > Specimens > 18th century

Note

Wackermann: Münchhausiana 5a1 /
Fictitious imprint.
Based on the 5th English ed. (issued London, 1787, with title Gulliver revived ... by Baron Munchausen) with additional anecdotes from the German and other editions.
Illustrations: Etchings, copies of those by E. L. Riepenhausen for the 2d German ed. (Wunderbare Reisen ... London [i. e. Göttingen] 1788). Five of the designs were copied by Riepenhausen from English eds., incl. 3 from the first illustrated ed. (The singular travels ... New ed. Oxford, 1786) possibly after R. E. Raspe, the translator, editor and possible author of the original collection. Cf. Wackermann, p. 61-73.
Binding, by Maetzke, Berlin, of marbled paper boards.
Provenance: Szafranski (bookplate).

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Neth. 1790 79-205

OCLC

NYPG794430909-B

Title

De verrezen Gulliver; behelzende de zonderlinge reizen en avonturen, van den Baron van Munchhausen ... Naar den 5. druk uit het Engelsch vertaald.

Imprint

Te Huaheine, Bij Omai, 's Landsdrukker, 1790.

Added Author

Riepenhausen, Ernst Ludwig, 1765-1840.

Maetzke (Firm)

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Neth. 1790 79-205