Galerie von Bildnissen aus Rahel's Umgang und Briefwechsel [Vol. I]

  • Leipzig: Gebrueder Reichenbach, 1836
By VARNHAGEN VON ENSE, K. A.
Leipzig: Gebrueder Reichenbach, 1836. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Blue glazed paper boards, with remnants of manuscript paper spine label; [xii],300pp.
One of two volumes only. Multiple ownership marks, stamps, and plates, including the "Lesezirkel von Fr. Frommann"; and two booksellers' tickets, of Rente'sche, Gottingen, and Max Harrseitz, Berlin. Sound but binding much rubbed and scuffed, with loss to lower front corner, minor dampstain to upper front corner, affecting only extreme margins of pages; generally complete and Good.

The first of two volumes of a work on Rahel Varnhagen by her husband, a biographer. Varnhagen ran a prominent salon and was the subject of a famous biography by Hannah Arendt.

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