SERMONS ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN, AND THE VALUE OF THE OBJECTS PRINCIPALLY RELATING TO HUMAN HAPPINESS / FROM THE GERMAN OF THE LATE REV. GEORGE JOACHIM ZOLLIKOFER, MINISTER OF THE REFORMED CONGREGATION AT LEIPSICK / BY THE REVEREND WILLIAM TOOKE, F. R. S. IN TWO VOLUMES. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

Tooke, William (1744-1820), Zollikofer, Georg Joachim (1730-1788).

Published by Printed by Thomas & Sturtevant for Isiah Thomas, jun., 1807. First edition., Worcester [Mass.], 1807

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[Volumes I-II.] 8vo. xxii, 424, vii, 459pp. In the original full calf, gilt lettered spine labels. Leather rubbed with a few scrapes. Leather cracked at spine of vol. 2, binding tight. Leaves toned with foxing throughout, heavy at times. p. 117-120 (vol. I) with a paper snag creating a hole, lower blank corner of p. 287-288 with a clean straight tear (not affecting text). Ownership plate of Geo. J. L. Colby and Newburyport Atheneum on front pastedown of vol. I. Ownership inscription of Michael Schultz on pastedown of vol. II. Good. First published in German in 1783. George Joseph Lunt Colby (1819-1890), a journalist, editor and newspaper owner from Newburyport, he was a state representative in the Massachusetts legislature and in the 1840s, Colby worked with Nathaniel Hawthorne in the Salem custom house. At the start of the Civil War George J. L. Colby was commissioned as a naval officer for the district of Newburyport by Abraham Lincoln. Shaw & Shoemaker 14249.

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• Title: SERMONS ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN, AND THE VALUE OF THE OBJECTS PRINCIPALLY RELATING TO HUMAN HAPPINESS / FROM THE GERMAN OF THE LATE REV. GEORGE JOACHIM ZOLLIKOFER, MINISTER OF THE REFORMED CONGREGATION AT LEIPSICK / BY THE REVEREND WILLIAM TOOKE, F. R. S. IN TWO VOLUMES. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
• Publisher: Printed by Thomas & Sturtevant for Isiah Thomas, jun., 1807. First edition., Worcester [Mass.]
• Publication Date: 1807
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good