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851 - Nietzscheana – Dite Collection
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Estimate €1,900 - €2,400
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Nietzscheana – Dite Collection Nietzsche, Friedrich Beyond Good and Evil. Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. Leipzig, Naumann, 1886. VI pp., 1 leaf (table of contents), 182 pp., 1 leaf (table of contents, colophon). Large 8°. Contemporary half-leather binding with gold-stamped typographic title on the spine, covers overlaid with marbled paper, endpapers of patterned paper and a red head cut (spine more heavily scuffed at the ends, joints at the head split open, corners and edges bumped and scuffed). First edition of Nietzsche’s most accessible work, and therefore the one of greatest significance in terms of its impact. – Schaberg 40 and pp. 163ff. (with ill. on p. 167). - Schaberg, *All Things Nietzsche*, Cat. 16, p. 26. - Borst Collection 3691. - Jacoby, p. 56. - Wilpert/Gühring 17. - “By any standard, ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ is among the greatest books in Western culture.” (Schaberg) One of only 600 copies of Nietzsche’s polemical critique of prevailing moral concepts, which he had previously expressed poetically in “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, Nietzsche’s first self-published work, for which Naumann acted not only as printer but also as commission publisher. - Provenance: Personal copy of Hermann Mutschmann (1882–1918), Professor of Classical Philology in Königsberg and, prior to that, assistant to Willamowitz-Moellendorf in Berlin, bearing the owner’s inscription “E. Herm. Mutschmann stud. phil.” in ink on the title page and numerous hand-drawn highlights, notes and corrections in pencil. - A few pages show slight finger-stains and dirt marks in the white margins; evenly browned due to the nature of the paper; otherwise a well-preserved copy, uncut on two edges. First edition of Nietzsche’s most accessible work, and therefore the one with the greatest impact. Bound in contemporary half-leather with a gilt typographic spine title; boards covered with ploved marbled paper and endpapers of block-printed paper (spine, head, corners and edges slightly rubbed). – For references, see above. – “By any standard, ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ is among the greatest books in Western culture." (Schaberg) One of only 600 copies of Nietzsche’s polemical critique of prevailing moral concepts, which he had previously expressed poetically in *Thus Spoke Zarathustra*, Nietzsche’s first self-published work, for which Naumann acted not only as printer but also as commission publisher. - Provenance: Personal copy of Hermann Mutschmann (1882–1918), Professor of Classical Philology in Königsberg and, prior to that, assistant to Willamowitz-Moellendorf in Berlin, bearing the owner’s inscription ‘E. Herm. Mutschmann stud. phil.’ in ink on the title page, and containing numerous handwritten underlinings, notes and corrections in pencil by this former owner. - A few pages show very slight finger and dirt stains in the white margins; the paper is evenly discoloured due to its nature; otherwise a well-preserved copy, uncut along two of the edges.
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