FIRST DANISH TRANSLATION

(LARSEN, LORENTZ CHRISTIAN).

Den berygtede Røvers Johannes Büklers, kaldet Schinderhannes's Levnet, Gierninger og Endeligt en Spitsbubehistorie uddraget af den piinlige Specialsrets criminelle Akter i Mainz. (i.e. German "Leben, Thaten und Ende des berüchtigten Räubers Johannes Bükler, genannt Schinderhannes").

Kiøbenhavn, Sebbelow, 1804.

8vo. In contemporary half calf. Light wear to extremities and title-page browned, otherwise internally nice and clean. (8), 232 pp.

Rare first Danish translation, published same year as the German original, of the biography of the notorious Rhineland outlaw Johannes Bückler, also known as Schinderhannes. It describes his life, crimes, trial, and execution, claiming to be based on the official criminal records of the Mainz court.

Order-nr.: 62865