Phaedon: Or, A Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul... with Notes and Emendations, to which is prefixed The Life of the Author, by Fenelon... First American, from the rare London Edition
New York: W. Gowan, 1833. First American edition. Hardcover. 1833, First American edition of the first appearance of a work by Plato printed in America. (5)-209 pp., plus 2 pp. of publisher's ads in rear. Hardcover, rebound in plain green buckram. Original front blank present; lacks half-title (if originally published with one). Mild foxing; mild waving; neat pencil marginalia to approx. 50 pages; faint tidemark to the upper margin. First American edition, from the 1701 London edition. A rebound copy of an important landmark in American printing. Very Good. Item #0085570
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