Ein Jahr in Arkadien: Kyllenion

by Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenberg August, Emile Leopold Augustus

$12,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Jena, Germany : Frommann and Wesselhoft , 1805. A rare presentation copy of the first edition of the earliest known novel that centers on an explicitly male-male love affair, written by the cross-dressing Duke August Emil Leopold von Sachsen-Gotha 1772-1822 . The ruler of a miniscule German territory during the Napoleonic Era, he was Queen Victoria's grandfather-in-law. With a presentation inscription on a preliminary

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