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<p>[QUOTE="shallow_ocean_spectre, post: 1214532, member: 142"][USER=1476]@Debora[/USER] - No disrespect intended, but neither of these is a First American Edition.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=301]@komokwa[/USER] - Yours is, indeed, the First American, and is genuinely uncommon in commerce. If it were mine, I'd collate it carefully to ascertain completeness and then offer it to Swann Galleries in New York for consignment, by ringing David Rivera on (212) 254-4710. David's extension is 13.</p><p><br /></p><p>The shorthand collation should be 2 preliminaries, 1003 numbered pages, and a number of folding cartographic plates. One of the institutions with a WorldCat listing will doubtless show the proper longhand collation:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/biblical-and-theological-dictionary-explanatory-of-the-history-manners-and-customs-of-the-jews-and-neighboring-nations/oclc/006679479" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/biblical-and-theological-dictionary-explanatory-of-the-history-manners-and-customs-of-the-jews-and-neighboring-nations/oclc/006679479" rel="nofollow">https://www.worldcat.org/title/biblical-and-theological-dictionary-explanatory-of-the-history-manners-and-customs-of-the-jews-and-neighboring-nations/oclc/006679479</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add: there's currently a Second Edition (1833) being offered by a specialist dealer, in approximately the same condition as yours, priced at $650.00. The Second is relatively common in commerce.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Further edited to add that there's a digitised (Ideal) example of the 1832 edition available online via this link:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://ie.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A644715518#/oclc/644715518" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ie.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A644715518#/oclc/644715518" rel="nofollow">https://ie.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no:644715518#/oclc/644715518</a></p><p>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="shallow_ocean_spectre, post: 1214532, member: 142"][USER=1476]@Debora[/USER] - No disrespect intended, but neither of these is a First American Edition. [USER=301]@komokwa[/USER] - Yours is, indeed, the First American, and is genuinely uncommon in commerce. If it were mine, I'd collate it carefully to ascertain completeness and then offer it to Swann Galleries in New York for consignment, by ringing David Rivera on (212) 254-4710. David's extension is 13. The shorthand collation should be 2 preliminaries, 1003 numbered pages, and a number of folding cartographic plates. One of the institutions with a WorldCat listing will doubtless show the proper longhand collation: [URL]https://www.worldcat.org/title/biblical-and-theological-dictionary-explanatory-of-the-history-manners-and-customs-of-the-jews-and-neighboring-nations/oclc/006679479[/URL] Edited to add: there's currently a Second Edition (1833) being offered by a specialist dealer, in approximately the same condition as yours, priced at $650.00. The Second is relatively common in commerce. Further edited to add that there's a digitised (Ideal) example of the 1832 edition available online via this link: [URL]https://ie.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A644715518#/oclc/644715518[/URL] .[/QUOTE]
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