15439. Altmann, Alexander, 1906-1987, (contributor). Lessing Yearbook I. München: Max Hueber Verlag, 1969, 1. Auflage, 294pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, previous owner's name: H. Zohn, $25
Includes two substantial contributions by Alexander Altmann, "Briefe Karl Gotthelf Lessings an Moses Mendelssohn" (9-59) and "Die Entstehung von Moses Mendelssohns Phädon" (200-33).

30541. Bahr, Ehrhard, hrsg. Was ist Aufklärung? Thesen und Definitionen. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1976, 85pp., PAPERBACK, small yellow Reclam volume, foxing on rear cover, previous owner's name in ink on front cover, $5
Kant, Erhard, Hamann, Herder, Lessing etc. excerpts.

26018. Bauer, Gerhard, 1935-, hrsg. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Hrsg. von Gerhard und Sibylle Bauer.. Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1968, vi, 447pp., very good white cloth, a few page edges wrinkled in rear, $24
Wege der Forschung, Bd. 211.

14012. Becker, Carl L., 1873-1945. The heavenly city of the eighteenth-century philosophers. New Haven, Yale UP [1951], 8th printing, 168pp., dust-jacket with minor wear, very good brown cloth, previous owner's name, $14
Based on the Storrs lectures delivered at Yale University, April 1931.

18975. Berger, Karl-Heinz, 1926-. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Sein Leben dargestellt in dreizehn Szenen. [Berlin] Verlag Neues Leben, 1956, 1. Auflage, 344pp. plates (incl. ports., facsim.) 20 cm, very good half-cloth, previous owner's name, $13
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10165. Blum, Carol. Diderot: the virtue of a philosopher. New York: Viking Press, 1974, viii, 182pp. 23 cm., worn dust-jacket, very good black half-cloth, $14
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30608. Cacciatore, Giuseppe. Il sapere poetico e gli universali fantastici : la presenza di Vico nella riflessione filosofica contemporanea : atti del Convegno internazionale, Napoli, 23-25 maggio 2002. A cura di Giuseppe Cacciatore. Napoli : Alfredo Guida, 2004, 300pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $25
Studi vichiani, 40. With 20 contributions by various authors, all texts in Italian.

Digitale Bibliothek Casanova. Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798. Geschichte meines Lebens - cd-rom. Hrsg und kommentiert von Günter Albrecht in Zusammenarbeit mit Barbara Albrecht. Berlin: DirectMedia, 2004, , cd-rom for pc's or mac, texts in German, $24
Digitale Bibliothek Casanova.In over 5000 pages Casanova documents the social life of Europe in the 18th century. German translation, based on the 12-volume Kiepenheuer edition, the first scholarly edition in German, first published 1983-1988. ISBN 3898530124.

10179. Crocker, Lester. Diderot, the embattled philosopher. New York: Free Press, 1966, revised edition, stated first printing, 420pp. 21 cm., dust-jacket with minor wear, very good black cloth, $25
Embattled philosopher. First published in 1954 under title: The embattled philosopher.

20657. Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784. Jacques the fatalist and his master. Translated and with introduction and notes by J. Robert Loy. New York : Norton, 1978, xxv, 289pp., 20 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, $6
Reprint of the edition published by New York University Press, 1959.

12153. Diderot, special issue. Diderot. Revue d'histoire litteraire de la France, 93, 5, Sept-Oct, 1993. Paris: PUF, 659-716pp., very good sewn paper wraps, $19
4 essays on Diderot by Magnan, Puiol, P. Frantz, M. Fumaroli.

19809. Drews, Wolfgang. Lessing in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, later printing, 181pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's name, $7.5
Rowohlts Monographien, 75.

29889. Duchet, Michèle. Anthropologie et histoire au siècle des lumières: Buffon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Helvétius, Diderot. Paris: Francois Maspero, 1971, 562pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $45
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7008. Gerhardt, Walther. Religionssoziologische Probleme im Roman der deutschen Aufklärung. Dissertation / Gießen. Giessen: Druck: A. Roßteutscher, Coburg, 1931, 115pp., chipped and worn paper wraps, with stain to inner top corner throughout, chip missing at mid-spine. An acceptable scholarly copy on good paper of an obscure dissertation, $25
Dissertation under guidance of Karl Vietor.

28876. Guthke, Karl S., 1933-. Offprint: "Gemmingens 'Mannheimer Dramaturgie' ". Sonderdruck aus: Jahrbuch des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1969, 1-65pp., PAPERBACK, very good, small chip at top of spine, substantial bound offprint, INSCRIBED by K.Th. To Wolfgang Wittkowski. $25
"Im Winter 1778/1779, von Ende Oktober bis Ende März, erschienen in unregelmäßigen Zeitabständen zwölf »Stücke« eines neuen deutschen Theater-Journals. Sein Titel - Mannheimer Dramaturgie - spielte ein wenig allzu kokett auf das knapp zehn Jahre zuvor aufsehenerregend gescheiterte Hamburger Unternehmen eines Deutschen National-Theaters an.".

19844. Guthke, Karl / Schneider, Heinrich. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1967, vi, 78pp. 19 cm, small PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's name, $7.5
Sammlung Metzler, 65. Realienbücher für Germanisten, Abt. D: Literaturgeschichte.

20212. Hecker, Jutta, 1904-2002. Wieland. Die Geschichte eines Menschen in der Zeit. Weimar, Kiepenheuer, 1959, 210pp. with illus. 20 cm, very good dust-jacket with a few minor tears, very good paper-covered boards, hardcover, previous owner's name, $13
Daughter of Goethe archivist Max Hecker, Jutta Hecker became a symbol of the great culture of Weimar with her Goethe editorial work. Her historical novels were popular. Wolfgang G. Vögele wrote: "Alle ihre biografischen Erzählungen und romanhaften Biografien zeichnen sich durch Detailkenntnis, einfühlsame Erfindungsgabe und einen gepflegten Sprachstil aus." An interesting link through the DDR back to the lost culture of the 1920s and the era of Goethe admiration.

48297. Hederich, Benjamin, 1675-1748. Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon - cd-rom. Berlin: DirectMedia, 2006, , cd-rom for pc or mac, texts in German, $39
Digitale Bibliothek 135.The mythology of Roman, Greek, and Egyptian antiquity, as collected in the mid- 18th century. Here the revised edition by Johann Joachim von Schwaben (1714–1784), first published in 1770. Hederich was the standard work used by the German classical writers. 2500 tightly printed columns and 31 genealogical tables are reproduced in this digital version both in facsimile and in searchable modern print.

Digitale Bibliothek 135. Hederich, Benjamin, 1675-1748. Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon - cd-rom. Berlin: DirectMedia, 2006, , cd-rom for pc or mac, texts in German, $39
Digitale Bibliothek 135.The mythology of Roman, Greek, and Egyptian antiquity, as collected in the mid- 18th century. Here the revised edition by Johann Joachim von Schwaben (1714–1784), first published in 1770. Hederich was the standard work used by the German classical writers. 2500 tightly printed columns and 31 genealogical tables are reproduced in this digital version both in facsimile and in searchable modern print.

25088. Holberg, Ludwig, 1684-1754. Nachricht von meinem Leben; in drei Briefen an einen vornehmen Herrn. Mit einem Essay von Georg Brandes. Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, 1926, liv, 365pp., very good small red cloth, $15
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13176. Horowitz, Irving Louis. Claude Helvetius: philosopher of democracy and enlightenment. New York: Paine-Whitman, 1954, 204pp. 23 cm, very good dust-jacket, front cover a bit scuffed, some light foxing, very good blue cloth, $25
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29896. Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, 1743-1819. Jacobis Spinoza Büchlein, nebst Replik und Duplik. Hrsg. von Fritz Mauthner. München, Georg Müller, 1912, xxvii, 344pp., worn tan half-cloth, spine cloth fraying at edges, marbled boards faded, paper well-preserved, good usable copy, $15
Bibliothek der Philosophen, Geleitet von Fritz Mauthner, Zweiter Band.

10174. Josephs, Herbert. Diderot's Dialogue of language and gesture: Le neveu de Rameau. [Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969, xi, 228pp. 25 cm., dust-jacket soiled, very good brown half-cloth, $19
Bibliography: pp. 217-221.

28562. Knudsen, Jonathan B.. Reprint: "Friedrich Nicolai's 'wirkliche Welt': On Common Sense in the German Enlightenment". Sonderdruck aus: Mentalitäten und Lebensverhältnisse, Rudolf Vierhaus zum 60. Geburtstag. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982, 77-91pp., PAPERBACK, very good, reprint, $7.5
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4123. Köster, Albert, 1862-1924. Die deutsche Literatur der Aufklärungszeit: Fünf Kapitel aus der Literaturgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts mit einem Anhang: Die allgemeinen Tendenzen der Geniebewegung. Vorwort des Herausgebers, Julius Petersen (4pp.). Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1925, 298pp., brown paper wraps, mostly uncut, paper fresh, label removed from front cover, $25
Edited for posthumously publication by Petersen. Main chapters on French classicism and Rokoko, early rejections of French models, theater and drama up to 1767, die Empfindsamkeit, Enlightenment.

7020. Krauss, Werner, 1900-1976. Perspektiven und Probleme. Zur französischen und deutschen Aufklärung und andere Aufsätze. Neuwied am Rhein: Luchterhand, 1965, 397pp., dust-jacket frayed around edges, green cloth, glued binding weak and cracking, usable reading copy only, $15
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22072. Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781. Werke. Berlin und Darmstadt: Tempel-Verlag, 1965, 1245, 1243pp., very good dust-jackets (vol. 1 soiled), volume two is very good white cloth, BUT volume one has wavy water-stained lower right corner, a major aesthetic defect, still quite usable, $15
Vol. I: Dichtungen. Briefe. Gedichte, Fabeln, Dramen, Briefe. Vol. II: Kritische Schriften. Literaturbriefe, Laokoon, Hamburgische Dramaturgie, Kleine Schriften.

15386. Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781, (subject). 3 Sonderdrucke / Offprints zu Lessing. , , , very good offprint wraps, $15
Alessandro Pellegrini, Lessing e l'Illuminismo (1964) - Arthur Henkel, Anmerkungen zu Lessings Faust-Fragment (1969, INSCRIBED Verf.) - Hans Steffen, Sprachkritik und Sprachhaltung bei Moliere und Lessing (1961, briefly INSCRIBED).

Digitale Bibliothek 5. Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781. Lessing: Werke - cd-rom. Ausgewählt von Mathias Bertram. Digitale Bibliothek 5. Berlin: DirectMedia, 1999, , text in German, cd-rom for pc (or mac with free software download), $19
Digitale Bibliothek 5.INCLUDES rororo biography of Lessing by Wolfgnag Drews and an audio book reading in German of Fabeln, read by Achim Hübner. Over 5000 pages of Lessing in searchable, printable digital form. CONTENTS INCLUDE:Gedichte: Lieder – Oden – Sinngedichte – Nachlese - Fabeln: Fabeln und Erzählungen – Fabeln. Drei Bücher – Nachlese - Dramen: Damon, oder die wahre Freundschaft – Der junge Gelehrte – Die alte Jungfer – Der Misogyn – Der Freigeist – Die Juden – Der Schatz – Miß Sara Sampson – Philotas – Minna von Barnhelm – Emilia Galotti – Nathan der Weise - Dramenfragmente: Samuel Henzi – D. Faust - Ästhetische Schriften: Rezensionen – Briefe – Vorreden – Abhandlungen von dem weinerlichen oder rührenden Lustspiele – Ein Vade mecum für den Hrn. Sam Gotthl. Lange – Rettungen des Horaz – Briefwechsel über das Trauerspiel – Abhandlungen über die Fabel – Briefe, die neueste Literatur betreffend – Laokoon – Hamburgische Dramaturgie – Wie die Alten den Tod gebildet – Leben und leben lassen – Selbstbetrachtungen und Einfälle u.a. - Theologiekritische und philosophische Schriften: Gedanken über die Herrnhuter – Das Christentum der Vernunft – Pope ein Metaphysiker! – Anti-Goeze – Ernst und Falk. Gespräche für Freimäurer – Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts – Gespräche mit Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi u.a. ISBN 3932544315.

27393. Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781. Laokoon. Edited by Dorothy Reich. London: Oxford University Press, 1965, 323pp., very good blue cloth, a few very minor pencil notations, $20
47pp introduction in English, substantial footnotes and endnotes in English, main Lessing text in German. Clarendon German Series.

3510. McCarthy, John A.. Crossing boundaries: a theory and history of essay writing in German, 1680-1815. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, xiv, 346pp. . 24 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good cloth, $16
Includes theory, history, and sections on Christian Thomasius, Leibniz, Gottsched, Johann Michael von Loen, Gellert, Klopstock, Wieland, Lessing, Herder, Johann Jacob Engel, Christian Garve, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Emilia von Berlepsch, Elisa von der Recke, Friedrich Schlegel, Adam Müller.

15359. Mittner, Ladislao. Freundschaft und Liebe in der deutschen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts. Sonderdruck aus:. Fuchs, Albert / Motekat, Helmut hrsg., Stoffe, Formen, Strukturen. Hans Heinrich Borcherdt zum 75. Geburtstag. München: Max Hueber, 1962, 97-138pp., offprint, wraps, very good, INSCRIBED on cover by Mittner, 5-2-63. $16
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12063. Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat baron de,. OEuvres diverses de Montesquieu. mises en ordre par M. Léon Thiesse, Oeuvres Complètes de Montesquieu. t. 6. Paris: P. Pourrat Fres, 1845, Nouvelle édition, 499pp., 20 cm., very good sewn paper wraps, well-preserved, pages mostly uncut, some foxing, $45
Oeuvres Complètes de Montesquieu. 6. Title page lists: Arsace et Ismenie -- Le temple de Gnide -- Essai sur le gout -- Discours academique -- Pensees -- Notes sur l'Angleterre -- Correspondance. Actual contents include: Le Temple de Gnide, Céphise et l'Amour, Invocation aux Muses, Essai sur le Gout, Discours de réception à l'académie des sciences de Bordeaux, Observations sur l'Histoire naturelle, Discours prononces a la rentree du parelement de Bordeaux, Eloge du duc de La Force, Discours de reception a l'academie francaise, Ebauche de l'Eloge historique du marechal de Berwick, Pensees diverses, Notes sur l'Angleterre, Poesies, Lettres Familieres, Notes.

13512. Montesquieu, Charles Louis Joseph de Secondat. Wahrhaftige Geschichte. Hrsg. u. eingeleitet von Viktor Klemperer, mit Holzschnitten von Werner Klemke. Berlin: Aufbau, 1952, 161pp., very good illustrated dust-jacket, frayed around edges, spine extremities chipped, some wear, very good yellow cloth, $25
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4503. Montesquieu. Lettres Persanes. Introduction et notes de Guy Harnois. Angers: Editions Jacques Petit, 1941, 340pp., very good 3/4 paper-covered boards, pages mostly uncut and well-preserved, slight wear, previous owner's name, $25
The editor's introduction is 50pp., the text is that of the 1913 Barckhausen edition which is the 1721 first edition with Montesquieu's corrections.

9783. Noel, Thomas. Theories of the fable in the eighteenth century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975, 177pp. . 22 cm., dust-jacket with minor wear, very good small green cloth, $14
Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Illinois. Deals with La Fontaine, Aesop in England, La Motte and Richer, Lessing, Rousseau, Dodley, Herder, Samaniego, Iriarte. Only in the 18th century was the fable considered a serious literary genre.

10166. O'Gorman, Donal. Diderot the satirist: Le neveu de Rameau and related works. An analysis. [Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971, 264pp. 24 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good brown cloth, $20
University of Toronto romance series, 17 Appendices contain the annotated French texts of Diderot's Satire premiere and of Lui et moi.

Digitale Bibliothek Empirismus. Quellen Empirismus. Quellen: Philosophie. Empirismus, Skeptizismus, Rationalismus, Französische Aufklärung - cd-rom. Berlin: DirectMedia, 2005, , cd-rom for pc or mac, texts in German, $19
Digitale Bibliothek Empirismus.German-language cd-rom of philosophical texts.

23890. Revue d’histoire des sciences et de leurs applications. L’ "Encyclopédie" et le progrès des sciences et des techniques. Secrétaires de rédaction: Suzanne Delorme et René Taton]. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1952, viii, 233pp., very good library red cloth binding, original wraps bound in, no call number on spine, library bookplate but few markings, $25
Centre international de synthèse. Section d’histoire des sciences. 21 essays by different authors on aspects of the Encylopédie and the sciences.

15702. Rowland, Herbert / Schade, Richard E., hrsg. Lessing Yearbook 31, 1999. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, Wayne State University Press, 2000, 261pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, $25
Döring, Detlef, Ein unbekannter Brief G. E. Lessings vom 16. Dezember 1778 an Heinrich Boie: 1-10. / Unger, Thorsten, "Es ist theatralischer Unsinn." Die Emilia-Galotti-Lektüre des Prinzen August von Sachsen-Gotha und Altenburg: 11-37. / Neiteler, Dieter, and Winfried Woesler, Zur Wahl der Textgrundlage einer Neuedition von Lessings Nathan der Weise: 39-64. / Nisbet, H. B., The Rationalisation of the Holy Trinity from Lessing to Hegel: 65-89. / Mathäs, Alexander, Narcissism and Male Desire in Sturm und Drang-Drama: Johann Anton Leisewitz' Julius von Tarent: 91-109. / Watt, Helga S., Sophie La Roche: Von der Glückseligkeit des Reisens zur Schreibseligkeit: 111-130. / Sosulski, Michael J., Trained Minds, Disciplined Bodies: Konrad Ekhof and the Reform of the German Actor: 131-156. / Review Focus: Briefwechsel: 157-163. / Book Reviews: 165-258. / Index to Book Reviews: 259-261.

10415. Saisselin, Remy G.. The rule of reason and the ruses of the heart. A philosophical dictionary of classical French criticism, critics, and aesthetic issues. Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970, x, 308pp. 24 cm., dust-jacket with minor wear, very good gray cloth, previous owner's name, $13
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28877. Schade, Richard Erich. Offprint: "Lessing's "Braggart Soldier" Tellheim ". Reprinted from CARLETON GERMANIC PAPERS (Ottawa, Canada), 22 (1994). Ottawa, Canada: Carleton, 1994, 121-129pp., PAPERBACK, stapled reprint, vertical fold mark through middle of text, INSCRIBED: Wolfgang! You'll recognize this. R.. $12
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1696. Schneider, Heinrich. Lessing: Zwölf biographische Studien. Bern: Francke, 1951, 312pp., dust-jacket chipped and torn at top front, very good red cloth, faded at top edge, INSCRIBED by Verfasser to Harry Zohn, June 1951; publisher's announcement laid in. The foreword is dated Harvard University, January 1950. $75
probably published first in Munich, 1950?.

4379. Schneider, Heinrich, hrsg. Das Buch Lessing. Ein Lebensbild in Briefen, Schriften, Berichten. Bern: Francke, 1961, neue, verbesserte Ausgabe, 320pp., very good dust-jacket, very good green cloth, $17
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16701. Schoeps, Julius H., 1942-. Moses Mendelssohn. Königstein/Ts.: Jüdischer Verlag im Athenäum-Verl., 1979, 194pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, $20
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8844. Seume, Johann Gottfried, 1763-1810. Prosaschriften. Einleitung von Werner Kraft. [Köln: Melzer, 1974, 1449pp. port., dust-jacket with minor wear, very good white cloth, $24
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19428. Seume, Johann Gottfried, 1763-1810. Spaziergang nach Syrakus. Einführung von Jürgen von Hollander. München: Bruckmann, 303pp., very good sewn paper wraps, previous owner's name, $17
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11538. Smith, D. W.. Helvétius. A study in persecution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965, 248pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, $40
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21148. Torrey, Norman L., 1894-. The spirit of Voltaire. New York, Columbia University Press, 1938, xiii, 314pp. front. (port.) plates. 23 cm, very good orange cloth, previous owner's stamp on title page, $15
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20735. Voltaire, 1694-1778. Lettres Philosophiques ou Lettres anglaises, avec le texte complet des remarques sur les pensées de Pascal. Introduction et notes de Raymond Naves. Paris, Editions Garnier Frères, 1956, 302pp., very good sewn paper wraps, minor ink notations on one page, $12
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17689. Wade, Ira. Micromégas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950, xii, 190pp. 21 cm, very good small brown cloth, but with some heavy ink notations and underlining in preface and first 10 pages, INSCRIBED by Ira Wade to A. R. Morehouse, New Haven, 1950. $35
Princeton publication in modern language, no. 10.

14349. Willoughby, L. A. (Leonard Ashley), 1885-1977. The classical age of German literature, 1748-1805. [London] Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1926, 136pp. 20 cm, very good small green cloth, some edgewear, $35
Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Classicism, Goethe and Schiller. German letters not just as a national product, but also as the reflection of international thought in the cosmopolitan eighteenth century.