Schillers Sämmtliche Werke in Zwölf Bänden
by Schiller, Friedrich
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1838. Hardcover. Very Good -. 12 volumes: frontispiece in vol. 1 is a portrait of Schiller; 16 cm. Black cloth spines with grey paper wrappers. Handwritten labels on the spines. The back of the fronispiece in vol. 1 is inscribed: "Philip Kassel. Zum Andenken erhalten von Herrn Koch Subrector Frankenthal." The front pastdowns and title pages of various volumes bear the names variously of Ervin Koch, Ph. Kassel, and ? Meyer. The title page of vol. 1 also bears the remains of a small handwritten label. It is extremely rare to find a complete set such as this still in its original wrappers, which would normally either have been replaced by a permanent binding by the first owner or have deteriorated after nearly 175 years. Contents: vol. 1. Gedichte der 1.-3. Periode; Metrische Uebersetzungen: Die Zerstörung von Troja; Dido -- vol. 2. Die Räuber; Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua; Cabale und Liebe; Der Menschenfeind -- vol. 3. Metrische Uebersetzungen: Iphigenie in Aulis; Scenen aus den Phönicierinnen des Euripides; Don Carlos -- vol. 4. Wallenstein -- vol. 5. Maria Stuart -- Die Jungfrau von Orleans; Die Braut von Messina -- vol. 6. Wilhelm Tell. Die Huldigung der Künste. Macbeth von Shakespeare; Turandot nach Gozzi -- vol. 7. Phädra von Racine. Der Parasit: nach dem Französischen; Der Neffe als Onkel aus dem Französischen des Piccard; Nachlass -- vol. 8. Geschichte des Abfalls der vereinigten Niederlande von der spanischen Regierung -- vol. 9. Geschichte des dreissigjährigen Kriegs -- vol. 10. Prosaische Schriften -- vols. 11.-12. Kleine Schriften vermischten Inhalts. In Very Good- Condition: some soiling and old dampstaining of the wrappers; the cloth is partially detached from the spine of vol. 12; some spine labels are intact, most are chipped with some loss; light marginal dampstaining of a few pages, not effecting text; foxing throughout, heavy on some pages but absent from others. Pages are tight. A very scarce intact set in the original wrappers.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000423
- Title
- Schillers Sämmtliche Werke in Zwölf Bänden
- Author
- Schiller, Friedrich
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung
- Place of Publication
- Stuttgart
- Date Published
- 1838
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Fiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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