Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

NIETZSCHE and WAGNER NIETZSCHE (FRIEDRICH) Menschliches, Allzumenschliches. Ein Buch für freie Geister, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 1878; and 4 others image 1
NIETZSCHE and WAGNER NIETZSCHE (FRIEDRICH) Menschliches, Allzumenschliches. Ein Buch für freie Geister, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 1878; and 4 others image 2
Lot 151

NIETZSCHE and WAGNER
NIETZSCHE (FRIEDRICH) Menschliches, Allzumenschliches. Ein Buch für freie Geister, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 1878; and 4 others

Amended
27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,062.50 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

NIETZSCHE and WAGNER

NIETZSCHE (FRIEDRICH) Menschliches, Allzumenschliches. Ein Buch für freie Geister, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with half-title, correction slip to page 290 ("Weere") and advertisement leaf at end, title-page with small stamp of Verlag C.G. Naumann, Leipzig (who acquired unsold copies of the book), contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt (rubbed), 8vo, Chemnitz, Ernst Schmeidtzner, 1878; Hymnus an das Leben: für gemischten Chor und Orchester [printed score], FIRST EDITION, 11 pages, integral title wrapper and last leaf reinforced at joint, some soiling, 4to, Leipzig, E.W. Fritzsch, 1887; Der Fall Wagner. Ein Musikanten-Problem, FIRST EDITION, [one of 500 copies], publisher's printed wrappers (spine repaired and stained), preserved in cloth solander box with gilt lettered spine label, 8vo, Leipzig, C.G. Naumann, 1888; Götzen-Dämmerung oder wie man mit dem Hammer philosophirt, second edition, publisher's printed wrappers, frayed at edges, hinges splitting and reinforced, Leipzig, C.G. Naumann, [1893]; The Twilight of the Idols, second English edition, limited to 1,500 copies, publisher's cloth, 8vo, Edinburgh & London, T.N. Foulis, 1915 (4)

Footnotes

Includes first editions of Human, All Too Human, the revolutionary work written in praise of Voltaire which marked the beginning of Nietzsche's rift with Richard Wagner, The Case of Wagner, the criticism which cemented the break, and the rare printed score of Nietzsche's own composition, The Hymn of Life, the text being a poem by Lou Salomé.

Saleroom notices

Total of 5 items in lot, as listed, not 4.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.

Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

CORNELIUS, MATTHEWS, editor. 1817-1889. The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Legends of the American Indians.

CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. [Dictionarium.] Calepinus Ad librum. Mos est putidas.... Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, January 3, 1509.

HEARN, LAFCADIO. 1850-1904. [Japanese Fairy Tales.] Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith, [But Tokyo: T. Hasegawa,] [c.1931].

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. 1899-1961. PUTNAM, SAMUEL, translator. Kiki's Memoirs. Paris: Sign of the Black Manikin, 1930.