Geschichte des Agathon. Unveränderter Abdruck der Editio princeps, 1767. Bearbeitet von Klaus Schaefer by Wieland, Christoph Martin, 1733-1813 - 1961

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Librairie Delagrave s.d, 1900 In-4, 28 cm, 233pp., illustrations de Emil Cause, reliure pleine percaline decoree de l'editeur, tranches dorees, Nb-0213,

Leipzig 1769. M.G. Weidmanns Erben und Reich 2nd edition, with preface 'An Herrn Creysesteurereinnehmer Weisse in Leipzig.' 16mo., xx., 128pp., title vignette, vignettes in text, in very old plain paper wraps (with title written in ink on paper spine label). Opens to title page. Good, spots of browning on titlepage, a few brown spots in text but most of text bright and clean, three small chips on rear wrap. .

Leipzig: Weidmannischen Buchhandlung 2nd edition, 1801. Good. Octavo marbled paper covered card with a faded spine label (edges quite rubbed) [16]pp (title +dedication) +332pp. Each chapter begins with an introduction followed by German translation and Latin original poem and ending in a section of explanatory matter. *First edition of this work published in Dessau in 1782. Wieland was a key figure in the German enlightenment and a contemporary of Goethe.

Basle : J. Jacuques Thurneysen, 1880. 1st Edition in this form. Hardback. Good copy in a later binding of cream paper-covered papers, with a gilt-titled label to the spine. Some wear and rubbing to spine and panel edges. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 93 pages; Description: 93p. : 4 plates, frontis. ; 19cm. Subjects: Wieland, Christoph Martin (1733-1813) - German literature - German poetry - 18th century - Translations into French. Tail piece illus. to each section. Language: French.

Carlsruhe : bey Christian Gottlieb Schmieder, 1783. Neu umgearbeitete und vermehrte Ausgabe. Hardcover. Worn copy bound in modern decorated boards with gilt decoration to the spine. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 316 pages. Subjects; History of the Abderites.

Leipzig: Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1768. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (200 x 121mm). 96pp. Engraved vignette to title depicting arguing characters. Scarce first edition. Original marbled paper board backed with morocco strip, lettered in gilt to second compartment; (light occasional foxing, light edgewear). The German poet and author Christoph Martin Wieland, sometimes called the German Voltaire, was a typical stylist of the German rococo period. Wieland wrote the Musarion oder die Philosophie der Grazien (Musarion, or the Philosophy of the Graces) in 1768 to open his series of ìlight and gracefulî romances in verse which appealed so irresistibly to his contemporaries and acted as an antidote to the sentimental excesses of the subsequent Sturm und Drang movement. His Musarion can be considered a continuation of his earlier novel Agathon (1766-1767), but the conflict between sensuous delight and purity of character is here softened by a spirit of renunciation. The overarching themes… Read More

London, W. H. Allen & Co, 1861. First Edition. Hardback. Exceptional copies both in the original gilt-blocked and blind-tooled cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remain a particularly well-preserved set; tight, bright, clean and strong. Scans on request. ; 1 pages; Description: 2 v. 20 cm. Subjects: Avdhira (Greece) --Fiction. Thrace--Fiction. Thrace --Fiction.

np: February 15, 1778. WIELAND, Christoph Martin [1733-1813] [German Poet & Writer]. Autograph Letter in German, Signed ‘Wieland’, dated February 15, 1778, to Mr. Mann. Thanking the addressee for his friendly exertions in undertaking to have made by Verhelfs (?) a copper-engraving of a portrait of Cardinal Ximenes and sending him the drawing of Ximenes by Kraus which is to serve as the basis for the engraving. Wieland insists he must have the proof plate by the end of March and that it must furnish 2500 impressions. He also requests that Mann greet Schwan and his Madonna and beg him to oblige him by despatching two stitched copies of Rosamund on his account to Caspar Bölling in Frankfurt and Peter Much in Amsterdam. He also writes with regards to communications with Savioli. 4to. pp. 2. (2 dampspots, edges little chipped). Offered together with a later manuscript English translation and a folio engraved portrait of Wieland by N.Schenker after F. van Kügelgen (foxed)