Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 9,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Schriften. 8 engraved frontispieces; 8 engraved title vignettes; 3 etched plates by Daniel Chodowiecki in Volumes 1, 2, and 4. 8 volumes. 8vo, 162x97 mm, contemporary German 1/2 calf; mostly moderate foxing, occasional browning. Bookplates of Carl and Thea Sternheim and Helmut Friedlaender. Leipzig: Georg Joachim Göschen, 1787-90

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first authorized collected edition, containing the fragmentary first published version of faust in Volume 7. With the 3 plates by Chodowiecki found in some sets of this edition. Hagen 11.