Czech Novel on American Slavery

Czech Novel on American Slavery, 1871, "Otrocnik, aneb: Rozum bez srdce. Povidka ze zivota americkych osadniku pro mladez a pratele jeji" [The Slave Merchant, or Brains without Heart; A Tale of American Plantation Life for Young People and Their Friends]. Written by Eduard von Ambach and published in Prague, 1871, by Mikulas & Knapp. Small octavo, 4.25 x 6.75 inches, 80 pages, quarter-cloth with paper boards. Boards rubbed; contents browning, a few small closed tears in the margins, otherwise very good internally. Frontispiece depicting a priest apparently interceding between a black man with a knife and a white man on his knees. Czech translation of a didactic and apparently melodramatic, juvenile novel about American slavery by a German or Austrian author, Eduard von Ambach, (1817-1897), written before or during the Civil War. We have been unable to locate a copy of any Czech or German language edition on OCLC, LOC, or any of the German, Austrian, or Swiss libraries or union catalogues polled by the Karlsruher Virtuelle Katalog (KVK). Nor is there a copy in the Czech National Library. The Austrian National Library does have a copy of a Hungarian edition published in 1864, "A rabszolga-Kereskedö vagyis esz sziv nelkül." Their catalogue listing for that edition includes a German title, "Der Sclavenhändler oder Geist ohne Herz. Skizzen aus den Südstaaten Amerikas", but we have been unable to locate a library holding a copy. Judging from other works by von Ambach on these various databases, it appears he primarily wrote short historical novels for Catholic youth, most of which were published in southern Germany or Austria. Intriguing example of European depiction of American slavery