335 - Brachmann, Der, Published in 1740 (by J.G. Altmann). First (Fifty-Third) Issue, a total of 53 issues in one volume. Zurich, Heidegger, 1740. 8 leaves, 450 pages, 4 leaves of contemporary half-leather binding with spine label (somewhat rubbed and bumped).

Brachmann, Der, Published in 1740 (by J.G. Altmann). First (Fifty-Third) Issue, a total of 53 issues in one volume. Zurich, Heidegger, 1740. 8 leaves, 450 pages, 4 leaves of contemporary half-leather binding with spine label (somewhat rubbed and bumped). Kirchner 4868; Diesch 554 (differently: 'Der Brachmane, eine moralische u. satyrischewochene Schrift im Jahre 1740'); Holzmann/Bohatta I, 7404. - First edition of the rare literary weekly. The editor Johann Georg Altmann 'founded a society in Bern for the cultivation of the German language and literature and published a new moral weekly, the Brachmann, for one year, in a pure German style.' Because he aligned himself with Gottsched, he and his circle suffered many attacks from the Zurichers, and in Bern itself he encountered dangerous opponents in the witty and sharp-witted proponents of French education...' (Waniek, Gottsched p. 451). - Main title page slightly creased, front inner hinge cracked. - Bookplate of the Stockholm Library, Hammer on mirror.