[Rarebooks] For Sale: Munchausen's Adventures in America, &c.

[Norman Kane]

GULLIVER REDIVIVUS: OR THE CELEBRATED AND ENTERTAINING  TRAVELS AND 
ADVENTURES OF THE RENOWNED BARON MUNCHAUSEN . . . INCLUDING A TOUR TO 
THE UNITED STATES   IN THE YEAR 1803.  Philadelphia: Key & Mielke; 
Stereotyped by L. Johnson, 1832.  12mo, original leather-backed 
marbled boards, 162 pages.  Edges lightly rubbed.  5 plates.
A scarce edition of this flight of imagination.  The narrative ends 
with the Baron's flight from New York to Philadelphia to escape the 
yellow fever, and his amusement at the Americans' gullibility 
regarding elixirs: "The above may give the European reader some idea 
of the credulity of the Americans, and the flourishing state of 
quacking in the country."   $200.00
(Trade Discount 10%)

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