Order Nr. 55676 MEMOIRS OF ****. COMMONLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF GEORGE PSALMANAZAR; A REPUTED NATIVE OF FORMOSA. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF IN ORDER TO BE PUBLISHED AFTER HIS DEATH. George Psalmanazar.
MEMOIRS OF ****. COMMONLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF GEORGE PSALMANAZAR; A REPUTED NATIVE OF FORMOSA. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF IN ORDER TO BE PUBLISHED AFTER HIS DEATH.
MEMOIRS OF ****. COMMONLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF GEORGE PSALMANAZAR; A REPUTED NATIVE OF FORMOSA. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF IN ORDER TO BE PUBLISHED AFTER HIS DEATH.
MEMOIRS OF ****. COMMONLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF GEORGE PSALMANAZAR; A REPUTED NATIVE OF FORMOSA. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF IN ORDER TO BE PUBLISHED AFTER HIS DEATH.
MEMOIRS OF ****. COMMONLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF GEORGE PSALMANAZAR; A REPUTED NATIVE OF FORMOSA. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF IN ORDER TO BE PUBLISHED AFTER HIS DEATH.

MEMOIRS OF ****. COMMONLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF GEORGE PSALMANAZAR; A REPUTED NATIVE OF FORMOSA. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF IN ORDER TO BE PUBLISHED AFTER HIS DEATH.

Containing an Account of his Education, Travels, Adventures, Connections, Literary Productions, and pretended Conversion from Heathenism to Christianity; which last proved the Occasion of his being brought over into this Kingdom, and passing for a Proselyte, and a Member of the Church of England.

  • London: Printed for the Executrix; Printed for R. Davis; J. Newbery; L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1764.
  • large 12mo.
  • half leather with marbled paper-covered boards, 5 raised bands, top edge gilt, red leather spine label
  • frontispiece, (ii), ii, 364 pages.
  • ISBN: none

Price: $2,000.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 55676

First edition. Advertisement page / page ii expertly repaired. Some scattered spotting and foxing throughout the textblock. A beautiful copy of the rare and scarce first edition. An autobiographical account, whereby the place of birth and the identity of the parents have been omitted. The Last Will and Testament have been prefixed to serve as an introduction.