Manifiesto Comunista.

£1,250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The first edition of the second Spanish translation of the Communist Manifesto, based on the influential French edition of 1901 by the eminent Germanist and philosopher Charles Andler (1886-1933). The first Spanish translation of the Communist Manifesto was published in 1872 across six issues of the weekly newspaper La Emancipación , the official organ of the New Madrid Federation of the International Workingmen’s Association (First International). The translation had been carried out by José Mesa (1831-1904), co-founder of the International in Spain, and was based on both the French and German editions of 1872. The Mesa translation languished in obscurity for over a decade, only being available in extremely scarce copies of La Emancipación . It was eventually reprinted in June 1886 in the Madrid periodical El Socialista and was finally issued in pamphlet form later in the same year. It was reprinted again as a pamphlet in 1904. The present second Spanish translation was undertaken by the socialist lawyer and politician Rafael García Ormaechea (1876-1938). The source material for Ormaechea’s translation was the important French edition by Charles Andler, published in Paris in 1901. Andler is best-known as a Germanist academic, having held professorships at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France later in life. However, his interest in socialism dated from his early years as a student; he was a member of Jean Allemane’s Revolutionary Socialist Workers’ Party from 1890 and even

• Year: 1906

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