Caspar Hauser. An Account of an Individual Kept in a Dungeon, Separated from All Communication with the World, from Early Childhood to About the Age of Seventeen. Drawn Up from Legal Documents.
by Von Feuerbach, Anselm
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833. The tale of Caspar Hauser (1812-1833), a supposed "wild child" raised outside of normal civilization, has fascinated the world for two centuries now and resulted in at least two motion pictures and several literary treatments. The author, [Paul Johann] Anselm Von [Ritter] Feuerbach (1775-1833) was a famous legal scholar of the time, but his fame now is linked to this wild innocent. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the Second American Edition (stated) from a year aftyer the First. Far from a common book. Purple cloth binding (now more of a pink) with a green paper label on the spine. Clean text; ix, 168 pages; very bright and clear. Frontis engraving of Hauser; Preface by Francis Lieber. Contemporary signature on the FFEP. Mild bumps, with the spine faded to a tan colour. Was Hauser a fake? Modern scholarship suggests he was, but we live in less miraculous times. Judge for yourself. . Second American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Quercus Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005444
- Title
- Caspar Hauser. An Account of an Individual Kept in a Dungeon, Separated from All Communication with the World, from Early Childhood to About the Age of Seventeen. Drawn Up from Legal Documents.
- Author
- Von Feuerbach, Anselm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Second American Edition
- Publisher
- Allen and Ticknor
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1833
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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Quercus Rare Books
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Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Bumps
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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