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LESSING, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781). Autograph album leaf signed ('Gotthold Ephraim Lessing'), Hamburg, 22 November 1769, a quotation from Horace, 'Omnis Aristippum docuit color et status et res' [from Epistles, I, xvii: 'all styles, states, circumstances suited Aristippus'], half page, oblong 8vo (120 x 183mm); inscription on verso by August Christian Frederick, Count Schulenburg;

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LESSING, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781). Autograph album leaf signed ('Gotthold Ephraim Lessing'), Hamburg, 22 November 1769, a quotation from Horace, 'Omnis Aristippum docuit color et status et res' [from Epistles, I, xvii: 'all styles, states, circumstances suited Aristippus'], half page, oblong 8vo (120 x 183mm); inscription on verso by August Christian Frederick, Count Schulenburg;
[and]: autograph note (a signature, 'Lessing', pasted to lower margin), n.p., n.d., asking for the immediate return of a pair of silver shoe buckles, 'Die Schuhschnallen, welche Sie mit genommen haben, werden jetzt auf das inständigste von mir zurück verlangt. Es sollen silberne seyn. Ich ersuch Sie also, sie mit der sogleich zurückgehenden Post, an mich zurück zu schicken', one page, 8vo, cut from a larger leaf, authentication by Anton Baer in red ink at lower margin. (2)
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