GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Die Vögel. Nach dem Aristophanes... Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig: Georg Joachim Göschen, 1787. 8o (175 x 115 mm). Disbound, uncut, mostly unopened; cloth folding case. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, published simultaneously in the fourth volume of Göschen's collected works (Leipzig, 1787-90, see following lot), here with new pagination and signatures. Other separate editions of various works were issued similarly, and no priority has been established. Hagen 11 and 186; Wilpert/Gühring 39.

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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Die Vögel. Nach dem Aristophanes... Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig: Georg Joachim Göschen, 1787. 8o (175 x 115 mm). Disbound, uncut, mostly unopened; cloth folding case. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, published simultaneously in the fourth volume of Göschen's collected works (Leipzig, 1787-90, see following lot), here with new pagination and signatures. Other separate editions of various works were issued similarly, and no priority has been established. Hagen 11 and 186; Wilpert/Gühring 39.

[With:] GOTTHOLD, Friedrich August. Ueber des Fürsten Anton Radziwill Kompositionen zu Göthe's Faust. Nebst Göthe's späteren Einschaltungen und Aenderungen... Zweite... vermehrte Ausgabe. Königsberg: Gräfe and Unzer, 1841. 8o (192 x 118 mm). Unbound. Provenance: Yale Library (cancellation stamp on verso of title page). Second edition. (2)

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