Lot no. 96
GOETHE Johann Wolfgang von. The Passions of Young Werther. Translated from the German by M. Goethe, by M. Aubry. Manheim and Paris, Pissot, 1777; in-8, xxxix-(1)-220 pp, contemporary binding in marbled calf, smooth spine decorated, red parts, red edges. First edition of Aubry's translation and third French version. Baldensperger finds it "more sensitive in tone and vocabulary than the first two". A fine copy in contemporary binding. Baldensperger, Goethe en France, p. 6.
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