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NIETZSCHE (FRIEDRICH)
Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik, FIRST EDITION, Leipzig, E.W. Fritsch, 1872

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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NIETZSCHE (FRIEDRICH)

Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik, FIRST EDITION, title-page vignette, some mainly light foxing to first and last few leaves, brown half morocco preserving original marbled boards and most of spine, 8vo, Leipzig, E.W. Fritsch, 1872

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Nietzsche's first major work, The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music was to become a classic in the study of aesthetics, with its emphasis on the darker side of classical Greek tragedy and praise for the work of Richard Wagner, who supplied the foreword.

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