‎Philologie‎

‎Euclid [i.e., Cleonides] / Péna, Jean (ed.)‎

‎[Eukleidou eisagoge harmonike, tou autou katatome kanonos]. Euclidis rudimenta musices. Eiusdem sectio regulae harmonicae, e regia bibliotheca desumpta [...].‎

‎Paris, Andreas Wechel, 1557. 4to. 2 parts. (4 pp.), 5-16, 10 ff. Text in Greek and Latin. With woodcut printer's device as well as several floral headpieces and initials. Later full vellum with handwritten spine-title.‎

‎First edition. Greek text and Latin translation of the "Introduction to Harmonics" by the Greek scholar Cleonides, the pupil of Aristoxenus, erroneously ascribed to Euclid, and of the "Division of the Scale", about whose true authorship there is no agreement. Edited by the French mathematician and educator Péna (ca. 1528-68), the book reflects the influence of classical mathematicians on Renaissance music theory and was a key work for the wide distribution of music theory of the classical period. - The attribution of the "Eisagoge" to Euclid (or to Pappus in some manuscripts) is incompatible with the Aristoxenian approach adopted in the treatise, namely that "the scale is formed of notes separated by a tone identified by the ear" (DSB IV, 430). Cleonides's treatise is the clearest account of the technical aspects in the work of the philosopher Aristoxenus, who defined key terms of music theory, including the interval, whole tone and semitone, pitch space, and rhythm. - The other musical work here ascribed to Euclid, the "Sectio canonis", expounds a quite contrary theory, namely "the Pythagorean doctrine that the musical intervals are to be distinguished by the mathematical ration of the notes terminating the interval [...] All that it seems possible to say with certainty is that Euclid wrote a book entitled 'Elements of Music' and that the 'Sectio canonis' has some connection with it" (DSB). Wechel printed both works in Greek as the first part and followed them with both Latin translations in the second. - Modern binding a little soiled and occasionally scratched; upper cover slightly bowed. Contemporary handwritten table of contents to second flyleaf (preserved from the first binding), mentioning another work by Péna, his translation of Euclid's "Optica & Catoptrica", also published in 1557, which appears to have been bound with the "Eisagoge" at the time. Second half shows a few light waterstains to the margin. Traces of an erased handwritten ownership on title-page. Rare; not seen at auction for nearly two decades. - RISM BVI 296. Gregory/Sonneck 85. Gesch. der Musiktheorie 7, 25 & 320. Davidsson 1962, 27. Gregory 85. Adams E 1023. Hoffmann II, 41. Schweiger I, 111. Not in Damschroder/Williams. OCLC 257567017.‎

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‎Horatius Flaccus, Quintus‎

‎Opera.‎

‎Paris, Didot, 1799. Imperial folio (354 x 492 mm). 404 pp. With 12 engraved vignettes in the Neoclassical style by by Girardet, Beisson and Coiny after Charles Percier's drawings, illustrating Roman reliefs. Contemporary Neoclassical red morocco binding by Georg Friedrich Krauss in Vienna for Duke Albert von Sachsen-Teschen. Profusely gilt spine divided into 7 compartments featuring green morocco lettering pieces and the monogram AS surrounded by an aureole. Leading edges gilt; gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.‎

‎Didot's "Louvre" edition of Horace, limited to 250 copies, of which this is no. 46 (and one of 100 copies containing the engravings "avant la lettre), signed by the publisher Pierre Didot the Elder ("No. 46 quarante-sixieme sur deux cents cinquante. P. Didot, l'aine"). The elegant unsigned binding is to be attributed to the Viennese artist bookbinder G. F. Krauss (active 1791-1824), showing the distinguishing features of his production. Krauss was the most prominent German bookbinder of his day, and the Duke of Saxe-Teschen was perhaps his most important client. Martin Breslauer's catalogue 110 offered a Krauss binding for Duke Albert, signed with his stamp "G. F. Krauss, Relieur à Vienne" and obviously performed in the same style and with the duke's monogram. Another fine example, unsigned like the present one, is pictured in the catalogue of Otto Schäfer's binding collection. - Duke Albert, Maria Theresa's son-in-law and sometime governor of Hungary and then of Belgium, was a collector of the first order. His collection of graphic art forms the nucleus of Vienna's Albertina; "as a bibliophile he evinced a special taste for good typography [...] Oddly, scholarship was long at a loss to identify Albert's bookbinders. Only recently [with the discovery of Breslauer's signed binding] could it be proved that Krauss bound at least parts of Duke Albert's library" (Schäfer). Works from the Krauss bindery have passed through some of the most distinguished collections over the years. There is but a small number of books printed by Didot and Bodoni which had the chance to be bound by Krauss. - Pierre Didot (1760-1853) was a third generation member of the prominent Parisian publishing family, Didot, renowned for the immaculate quality of their books. "When Pierre Didot l'ainé chose to adopt his own fount of letter - how exquisitely does it appear in the folio Virgil of 1798, and yet more, perhaps, in the folio Horace of 1799!? These are books which never have been, and never can be, eclipsed. Yet I own that the Horace, from the enchanting vignettes of Percier, engraved by Girardais, is to my taste the preferable volume" (Dibdin). Pierre and his younger brother Firmin took over the family business in 1789. Among their first projects was a supremely luxurious suite of the works of canonical authors from antiquity and France known as the 'Louvre' editions because they were launched when the firm occupied a studio space in the Musee du Louvre. The importance of these luxury editions - printed on the highest quality paper, illustrated by the leading artists of the period in Neoclassical style, and printed in a new type face designed exclusively for these editions - cannot be overstated: "The distinction of this set of folios resides in its scale, abounding illustrations, and its consequentially exorbitant production costs. Though it was not a commercial success, these books endure as Pierre's crowning achievement among the hundreds of editions he produced in his career, and easily the most significant illustrated set of books in the period" (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Didot himself, in a letter to Talleyrand, said of his Horace, "la superiorite d'execution de cet ouvrage ... l'emporte evidemment sur celle [du] Virgile [...] La gravure des vignettes est un chef-d'oeuvre". - Some light foxing throughout; dampstains around Didot's signature as a mark of authentication. The sumptuous binding is impeccably preserved. From the collection of the New York banker Lucius Wilmerding (1880-1949), trustee of the NY Public Library, vice-president of the American Library in Paris, and president of the Grolier Club, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. - Moss II, 33. Dibdin, 117. Brunet III, 323. Graesse III, 356. Dibdin, A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour II, 241. For Krauss cf. Breslauer, cat. 110 (1991), no. 167; Otto Schäfer cat. (1992), no. 161.‎

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‎Aesopus‎

‎La vida y fabulas del Esopo: a las quales se anadieron algunas muy graciones de Avieno, y de otros fabios fabuladores.‎

‎[Leyden], Plantin, 1607. 12mo (84 x 134 mm). 384 pp. With wodcut printer's device to title-page and 69 small but elegant woodcuts in the text. Contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties).‎

‎Pretty and attractively illustrated, pocket-sized Spanish fable collection containing a life of Aesop (consisting of 86 pages and illustrated with one woodcut showing Aesop with a basket on his arm collecting fables in the field), 80 fables by Aesop illustrated with 46 woodcuts, 17 so-called fables "extravagantes" with 3 woodcuts, another 17 fables by Aesop in the translation of Rimicius, illustrated with 13 woodcuts, 37 fables by Avianus with 5 woodcuts, and 23 other fables collected from various sources, illustrated with 2 woodcuts. According to Peeters-Fontainas, the book was published at the Plantin office at Leyden although at the time the Netherlands were still at war with Spain: "L'adresse 'Oficina planiniana' a toujours fair attribuer cette édition aux presses d'Anvers. C'est une erreur, la marque plantinienne no. 165 n'a été utilisée que dans l'officine de Leyde; elle ne figure d'ailleurs pas dans les recueils de marques plantiniennes de Van Havre. Nous la retrouverons encore sur plusieures éditions espagnoles de cette officine" (Pays-Bas Méridinaux). - Binding wrinkled and stained with traces of former ties. Some wrinkling, browning and waterstains throughout; leaves C5-6 bound before C3 but complete. Title-page clipped next to device and re-backed without loss. Old handwritten ownerships of monastic libraries and traces of a stamp to title-page; further 17th century ownership at the beginning of the biography. Stamp of the L'achki collection on lower pastedown. - Palau 81.895. Peeters-Fontainas, Pays-Bas Méridinaux 13. Peeters-Fontainas, Pays-Bas 1480. Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books, F034. La Serna II, 3219. Menéndez Pelayo I, 251. Simón Díaz 5780. Simoni A29. Not in Fabula Docet.‎

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‎Gaudin, Paul, French engineer and archaeologist (1858-1921)‎

‎Collection of 264 photographs from the archaeological site of Aphrodisias.‎

‎[Aphrodisias, 1904-1905]. 258 glass plate negatives (9 x 12 to 18 x 24 cm) and 8 panorama nitrate film negatives (31 x 9.5 cm).‎

‎Extensive photographic documentation of the first official archaeological excavation of Aphrodisias in the historic Caria region, now part of Anatolia, Turkey. Named Aphrodisias in the Hellenistic period, the city gained importance since the 1st century AD as an early and reliable ally of the Roman Empire in the region. During the Roman period, Aphrodisias enjoyed important privileges and became a provincial capital. The well-preserved ruins of public and private buildings excavated since 1904 bear witness to the wealth and importance of Aphrodisias during Imperial times. The city was also a centre of marble production and sculpture, adding greatly to its archaeological significance, as documented in the photographs. In the early 7th century, an earthquake largely destroyed the now Byzantine city that had been renamed Stauropolis around the same time, in an effort to remove pagan connotations. Little remained of Aphrodisias's former importance and splendour thereafter. - Osman Hamdi Bey, the father of Turkish archaeology, had first visited the site of Aphrodisias in 1892 and obtained permission for excavations in 1898. Lacking the necessary funds for a large archaeological campaign, the Francophile Hamdi Bey proposed to Paul Gaudin, then director of the Smyrna-Cassaba railway, to organize excavations in Aphrodisias under his license. A passionate amateur archaeologist who had already led excavations in the bronze-age necropolis of Yortan, Gaudin financed the initial campaign in August 1904. The summer of 1905 saw a more professional campaign under the scientific direction of the French archaeologist Gustave Mendel (1873-1938), with moderate financial support from the French state and private institutions. In August 1905, Paul Gaudin was called to Damascus to serve as director of the Hejaz railway project and therefore was absent for most of the 1905 campaign. Due to a bitter conflict between Gaudin and Mendel the excavations did not continue after 1905, and it was only in 1962 that Kenan Erim began a new campaign under the aegis of New York University that is currently led by Professor R. R. R. Smith (Oxford). - In view of the long interruption of work, Gaudin's photographic documentation is particularly valuable, as many of the archaeological findings have been dispersed among museums in Turkey and Western Europe or even lost over time. As Gaudin's 1904 campaign was not conducted systematically, the earlier photographs provide particularly valuable information concerning the progress of the excavations. - Paul Gaudin was born in Paris, the son of the chemist Marc-Antoine Gaudin (1804-80). His passion for photography was certainly inherited from his pioneering father who in 1841 introduced the usage of bromine fumes to improve the sensitivity of the plates, which allowed for a great reduction of the necessary exposure time, and published the first French journal devoted to photographic research, "La Lumière". In 1880, Paul Gaudin completed his engineering training, obtained a position as deputy stationmaster in Paris, and was subsequently employed as an inspector by the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest. His career took an unexpected turn when he was sent to Turkey in 1892 to direct the Moudania-Brousse railroad line operated by the important Belgian investor and engineer Georges Nagelmackers. As early as 1894, after Nagelmackers had obtained a concession for the Smyrna-Cassaba railway, Gaudin was promoted to director of this important line and led its expansions. Gaudin's lasting contributions to archaeology with his excavations in the Yortan necropolis (1898 and 1901) and in Aphrosidias, as well as his important collection of Smyrnian figurines and other objects, date to his time in Smyrna (Izmir). His most prestigious and challenging position as a railroad engineer, however, was his charge by Sultan Abdul Hamid II to complete the famous Hejaz railway. Despite financial problems, difficult geographical and climatic conditions, and the often hostile (sometimes even violent) reaction of the local population, Gaudin led the rapid expansion of the line from Ma'an to Medina, where the construction came to a definite halt in 1908. During the project, Gaudin was the first to photographically document the Arabic old town of Al-'Ula in 1907. - Little is known of Paul Gaudin's employments after his contract with the Hejaz railway expired in 1909. He briefly collaborated on the disastrous Ottoman project for the construction of a railway line from Hodeidah to Sana'a in 1911, and he seems then to have permanently returned to France, where he died in Versailles in 1921. Today, Paul Gaudin is best remembered as a major patron of the Louvre, to which he donated more than 2,000 artifacts from his collection. The Istanbul Museum, the British Museum, and other institutions also owe him important contributions to their Asia Minor, especially Smyrna, antique collections. - Provenance: 1. Collection of Paul Gaudin, family inheritance. 2. Rouillac auction, 20 June 2022, lot 303. - G. Charloux, Paul Gaudin et les premières campagnes de fouilles à Yortan et à Aphrodisias, in: Orient-Express, no. 1, 2001, pp. 24-26; M. Collignon, Note sur les fouilles exécutées à Aphrodisias par M. Paul Gaudin, in: CRAI, 48/6, 1904, pp. 703-711; A. Le Goff/N. Coutsinax, Les dossiers individuels de mission conservés aux Archives nationales et leur apport à l?histoire de l?archéologie: l?exemple de la fouille d?Aphrodisias en 1905, in: Les Nouvelles de l?archéologie, no. 110, 2007, pp. 40-47.‎

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‎Lübker, Friedrich‎

‎Friedrich Lübker's Reallexikon des classischen Alterthums [klassischen Altertums] für Gymnasien. Herausgegeben von Max Erler.‎

‎Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1877. Gross-8°. VII, [1], 1272 S. mit einigen Abbildungen, mehrere auf Falttafeln. Neuerer privater Halbeinenband. 5. verbesserte Auflage. Titelblatt gestempelt u. nummeriert. Papierbedingt teils gebräunt, wenige Ränder leicht abgegriffen.‎

‎- Versandkosten wegen des hohen Gewichts innerhalb Deutschlands EUR 5,00‎

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‎Precht, Victor‎

‎Grammatik der spanischen Sprache. Erster Theil, enthaltend die Formenlehre und Wortbildung, mit einer Einleitung über Geschichte und Character der spanischen Sprache nebst den Grundzügen des Romance castellano. Zweiter Theil, enthaltend spanische und deutsche Uebungsaufgaben, die Syntax und Correspondenz.‎

‎Bremen, Geisler, 1852. XLIV + 68 + Zwischentitel + VIII + 248 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Zwei Teile in einem Band. - Ehemal. Bibliotheks-Expl. (Nr.), stärker stockfleckig, Gbrsp., R. m. Japanpapier stabilisiert, Seiten tlw. unaufgeschnitten.‎

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‎Schweizer, Eduard‎

‎Grammatik der Pergamenischen Inschriften. Beiträge zur Laut- und Flexionslehre der gemeingriechischen Sprache.‎

‎Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1898. VIII + 212S. Privater Hlwd. der Zeit.‎

‎Leichte Gbrsp., Kanten etw. bestoßen, einige wenige Buntstiftanstreichungen u. -anmerkungen im T.‎

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‎Von Einem, Herbert‎

‎Zum "Apoll" vom Westgiebel des Zeustempels in Olympia. Ernst Langlotz zum Gedenken. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 1980, Heft 1.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1980. 8 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Beiliegend: Inhaltsverzeichnis des Jahrgangs. - Leichter Lichtschatten.‎

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‎Suchla, Beate Regina‎

‎Die Überlieferung des Prologs des Johannes von Skythopolis zum griechischen Corpus Dionysiacum Areopagiticum. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 1984, Heft 4.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984. 14 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Tadellos.‎

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‎Stein, Peter‎

‎Die Idee der Evolution im Recht. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 1981, Heft 5.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1981. 12 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Leichter Lichtschatten.‎

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‎Schützeichel, Rudolf‎

‎Addenda und Corrigenda zu Steinmeyers Glossensammlung. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 1982, Heft 6.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. 44 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Leichter Lichtschatten.‎

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‎Schindel, Ulrich‎

‎Die Invektive gegen Cicero. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 1980, Heft 5.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1980. 16 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Leichter Lichtschatten.‎

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‎Petrikovits, Harald von‎

‎Der diachorische Aspekt der Kontinuität von der Spätantike zum frühen Mittelalter. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 1982, Heft 5.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. 16 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Leichter Lichtschatten.‎

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‎Ullmann, Manfred‎

‎Arabische Gedichte über Seerosen und Lotosblumen. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 2001, Heft 12.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001. 83 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Minimale Gbrsp.‎

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‎Schreiber, Hermann - Akademie der Wissenschaften Göttingen (Hg.)‎

‎Historische Gegenstände und Instrumente im Institut für Physik der Universität Göttingen. Herausgegeben von der Akademie der Wissenschaften Göttingen, Kommission für historische Apparate.‎

‎Göttingen, -, 2000. 48 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Tadellos. - Aus dem Inhalt: Bauwerke auf dem Institutsgelände. Geodätische Instrumente. Instrumente zum Erdmagnetismus. Seismologie. Meteorologie. Optische Instrumente.‎

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‎Stoessl, Franz‎

‎Apollonios Rhodios. Interpretationen zur Erzählungskunst und Quellenverwertung.‎

‎Bern - Leipzig, Haupt, 1941. 158 + 1 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Lichtschatten, leichte Gbrsp. - Habilitationsschrift.‎

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‎Lausberg, Heinrich‎

‎Minuscula philologica (VII). Das Epiphonem des Johannes-Prologs (J 1,18). In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 1982, Heft 7.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. 21 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Leichter Lichtschatten.‎

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‎Lausberg, Heinrich‎

‎Minuscula philologica (VI). Der Hymnus Ave maris Stella. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 1982, Heft 4.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. 76 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Leichter Lichtschatten.‎

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‎Heuß, Alfred‎

‎Gedanken und Vermutungen zur frühen römischen Regierungsgewalt. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 1982, Heft 10.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. 80 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Leichter Lichtschatten.‎

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‎Guillon, Emmanuel‎

‎Notes sur le Bouddhisme Mon. (Beiträge zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des Buddhismus in Birma, II). In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 1983, Heft 2.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983. 22 S. OBrosch.‎

‎In französischer Sprache. - Leichter Lichtschatten.‎

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‎Borger, Rykle‎

‎Altorientalische Lexikographie - Geschichte und Probleme. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 1984, Heft 2.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984. 46 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Minimale Gbrsp.‎

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‎Kaiser, Otto‎

‎Die Bedeutung der griechischen Welt für die alttestamentliche Theologie. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 2000, Heft 7.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000. 44 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Tadellos.‎

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‎Heitsch, Ernst‎

‎Beweishäufung in Platons Phaidon. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 2000, Heft 9.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000. 45 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Tadellos.‎

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‎Gärtner, Kurt - Klaus Grubmüller (Hg.)‎

‎Ein neues Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch. Prinzipien, Probeartikel, Diskussion. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 2000, Heft 8.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000. 144 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Tadellos.‎

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‎Barner, Wilfried‎

‎Goethe und Lessing. In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jg. 2000, Heft 4.‎

‎Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000. 30 S. OBrosch.‎

‎Tadellos.‎

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