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GOETHE / NERVAL (Gérard de) Faust. New complete translation in prose and verse by Gérard. Paris, Ve Dondey-Dupré, 1835. 1 vol. in-12 paperback, green printed cover. Etched hors-texte frontispiece (Dr. Faust's vision), xij-320 pp. Some foxing. Partly original second edition of Gérard de Nerval's celebrated translation, which radically revised the text of the original 1828 edition. Sénelier, no. 181.

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GOETHE / NERVAL (Gérard de) Faust. New complete translation in prose and verse by Gérard. Paris, Ve Dondey-Dupré, 1835. 1 vol. in-12 paperback, green printed cover. Etched hors-texte frontispiece (Dr. Faust's vision), xij-320 pp. Some foxing. Partly original second edition of Gérard de Nerval's celebrated translation, which radically revised the text of the original 1828 edition. Sénelier, no. 181.

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GOETHE (Johann Wolfgang von) [NERVAL (Gérard de)]: Faust suivi du second Faust, choix de ballades et poésies de Goethe, Schiller, Burger, Klopstock, Schubart, Koerner, Uhland etc. Translated by Gérard. Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1840. One volume. 10.5 by 17.5 cm. XXII-(2)-444 pages. Contemporary red half-chagrin, smooth spine (with false nerves) decorated with fleurons. Minor rubbing to binding, rare interior foxing. Translation and important introduction by Gérard de NERVAL. The translation of the second Faust and some of the German poems are here in the French Original Edition.

Estim. 20 - 40 EUR

Lot of around 16 volumes including Balzac, Camus, Goethe, De Gaulle, Nerval, etc.

Current bid 5 EUR

FAUST, par GOETHE, Texte français de Gérard De NERVAL, Illustrations de Robert BELTZ, Gravée sur Bois par Gilbert POILLIOT. 230 pages, In-folio en feuilles sous chemise souple et embotage cartonné d'éditeur. Editions Aux Dépens de L'Artiste, 1970. Exemplaire N°130/299 sur Vélin de Rives Pur Fil. Très bel état général.

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Eugène Delacroix, Mephisto in Auerbach's Cellar for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust I", depiction of the scene when wine pours out of a table and turns into fire on the floor, four revellers retreat in horror, while Mephisto and Faust calmly observe the spectacle, published in "Faust, Tragédie de M. de Goethe", Traduite en francais par M. Albert Stapfer, Ornée d'un portrait de l'Auteur, et de dix-sept dessins d'après les principales scènes de l'ouvrage et éxécutés sur pierre par M. Eugène Delacroix. A Paris, chez Ch. Motte, Editeur, (...) 1828, chalk lithograph on wove paper, labelled below the image in the stone on the left "Delacroix inv. et lithog." and "Lith. Goyer et Hermet, 7 pas Dauphine", collection stamp to the reverse, somewhat brownstained, dimensions of the image without writing approx. 27 x 22 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 39.6 x 29.4 cm. Artist information: actually Ferdinand Victor Eugéne Delacroix, French painter (1798 Charenton-Saint-Maurice/Paris to 1863 Paris), scion of a family of cabinetmakers, family moved to Bordeaux, 1805 moved back to Paris, from 1815 studied in Guérin's studio, 1816-24 studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, 1827 produced 17 lithographs on Goethe's Faust, 1831 created his most famous painting "Liberty for the People" in commemoration of the July Revolution, travelled to Morocco and visited the Sultan, 1855 retrospective at the Universal Exhibition, appointed Commander of the Legion of Honour and member of the École des Beaux-Arts from 1857, source: u.Thieme-Becker and Wikipedia.

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