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866 - Nietzscheana – Dite Collection
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Nietzscheana – Dite Collection Nietzsche, Friedrich Untimely Meditations. Part Three. Schopenhauer as Educator. Schloss-Chemnitz, Schmeitzner, 1874. 113 (1) Modern marbled cardboard binding with handwritten title on the spine and an original dust jacket mounted on the front cover bearing a typographic title print (the dust jacket is fragmented at the edges with minimal tears in the covering and slight staining). First edition of the third part of Nietzsche’s *Reflections*, on his early philosophical role model Schopenhauer. – Schaberg 26. – Schaberg, *All Things Nietzsche*, Cat. 16, pp. 10–16. - Borst Collection 3194. - Jacobi, p. 51. - Volpi, pp. 758ff. - WNB 362. - Wilpert-Gühring 5. - Zimmermann 23. - The third essay in a publication project originally planned by Nietzsche to comprise 13 texts on contemporary social, philosophical, religious and economic issues, including a tribute to Schopenhauer’s philosophy. “The Essay (also) represents one of Nietzsche’s first serious engagements with Darwinian philosophy, in the course of which Nietzsche elaborates a conception of nature and its alleged purposes that recalls the Greeks and their much more flexible conception of ‘physis’, as opposed to the Victorian rigidity of Darwin’s followers.” (Schaberg, p. 15) – 1,000 copies of the first edition were printed by C. G. Naumann in Leipzig on behalf of Schmeitzner. Even after several years, only 350 of these had been sold. The remaining stock was taken over, following the publisher’s insolvency in 1886, first by Nietzsche’s first publisher Fritzsch and later by the printer-publisher Naumann, and distributed by them as a ‘new edition’ (with the publisher’s details covered up, publisher’s stamp or new title pages), which is why only a much smaller proportion of the print run, such as this copy, entered circulation with Schmeitzner’s original, unaltered title page. – A very well-preserved copy with the original dust jacket largely intact. First edition, first printing of the third part of Nietzsche’s *Betrachtungen* on his early role model Schopenhauer. In a modern marbled cardboard binding with a handwritten title on the spine and the original dust jacket tipped onto the front cover, featuring a typographic title print (this fragment is slightly damaged at the edges and has some minor staining). – For references, see above. – The third volume of a publication project originally conceived by Nietzsche as a series of 13 texts on the social, philosophical, religious and economic issues of the time, consists of a tribute to Schopenhauer’s philosophy. “The essay (also) represents one of Nietzsche’s first serious engagements with Darwinian philosophy, in the course of which Nietzsche elaborates a conception of nature and its alleged purposes that recalls the Greeks and their much more flexible conception of ‘physis’, as opposed to the Victorian rigidity of Darwin’s followers.” (Schaberg, p. 15) – 1,000 copies of the first edition were printed by C. G. Naumann in Leipzig on behalf of Schmeitzner. Even after several years, only 350 of these had been sold. The remainder was taken over, following the publisher’s insolvency in 1886, first by Nietzsche’s first publisher, Fritzsch, and later by the printer-publisher Naumann, and distributed by them as a reissued edition with the old publisher’s details covered by a new label, bearing the actual publisher’s stamp or a new title page), which is why only a much smaller proportion of the print run entered circulation with Schmeitzner’s original, unaltered title page, as seen here. - A very well-preserved copy with most of the original publisher’s front wrappers intact.
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