WEEMS, Mason Locke (1759-1825). Das Leben des Georg Waschington, mit Sonderbaren Anecdoten. Libanon [Lebanon], PA: J. Schnee, für M. Carey, 1810. 12mo. (7 x 4 3/8 inches). 240pp. 7 engraved plates, including a stipple and line engraved bust portrait after Stewart. Contemporary sheep, front cover detached. Rare first edition in German of Weem's famous biography of George Washington. Weems is most famous for his biography of Washington ...The book is a kind of fictionalized biography in which Washington is pictured as a person sent by God to save his people from slavery ... Weems's volume on Washington was so successful because it told the story of the American Revolution, the nation's greatest political event, in a way that was easy to read and that was full of drama and excitement (ANB). An earlier German edition (Fredericktown, 1809) translated The life and memorable actions of George Washington, general and commander of the armies of America (Fredericktown, 1801), a piracy with selections from Weems and other sources. The present work is the first German edition of Weem's biography, as written by Weems, first published in 1800 and expanded by him in 1806. Shaw & Shoemaker 21999; Sabin 102479; Skeel, Weems 20.