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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). [A group of 5 works]. Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta, 1802-1850.
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). [A group of 5 works]. Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta, 1802-1850.
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). [A group of 5 works]. Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta, 1802-1850.
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). [A group of 5 works]. Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta, 1802-1850.
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). [A group of 5 works]. Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta, 1802-1850.

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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). [A group of 5 works]. Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta, 1802-1850.

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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). [A group of 5 works]. Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta, 1802-1850.

First editions of three works, including Goethe's translation of the autobiography of the Italian Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini, and the first complete editions of two translations of Voltaire. Goethe’s German reworking of Voltaire includes the first complete edition of Tancred, originally published in French in 1760, and Mahomet, first published in 1742, in which Goethe’s admiration for Muhammad ‘stood in stark contrast to the polemical tradition of Voltaire’s play’ (Safranski). A full description and condition report is available upon request. R. Safranski (trans. D. Dollenmayer). Goethe: Life as a Work of Art. New York: Liveright, 2017. Hagen 277, 280, 286, 290.

Together 6 volumes, octavo (various sizes). Comprising: – Mahomet. Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen, nach Voltaire. Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1802. 19th-century green patterned cloth; – Tancred. Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen, nach Voltaire. Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1802. Modern boards; – Leben des Benvenuto Cellini, Florentinischen Goldschmieds und Bildhauers von ihm selbst geschrieben. Übersetzt und mit einem Anhang herausgegeben von Goethe. Tübingen: Cotta, 1803. Modern half calf; – GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). ‘Die natürliche Tochter. Trauerspiel’ [in]: Taschenbuch auf fu¨r das Jahr 1804. Tübingen: Cotta [1803]. Original publisher’s printed boards; – Briefwechsel zwischen Goethe und Reinhard in den Jahren 1807 bis 1832. Stuttgart and Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1850. Early 20th-century half leather.
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