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907 - Lessing, G.E.
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Lessing, G.E. Laocoon: or On the Limits of Painting and Poetry. Part One (all published material). Berlin, Voß 1766. 4 leaves, 298 pp. Contemporary leather binding with gilt lettering. (Some pages slightly stained and rubbed; lower spine with wormhole). Goedeke IV/1, 387, 96. Muncker 404. Seifert 734. - First edition of Lessing’s important treatise on art theory, inspired by an exchange of letters between Moses Mendelssohn and Winckelmann as well as Winckelmann’s *History of Ancient Art*, published in 1764. A second printing appeared in the same place in 1788. - Slightly yellowed, with a few scattered spots.
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Auction 146 - Day 1Auction house
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