Anfangsgründe der schönen Wissenschaften zu dem Gebrauche seiner akademischen Vorlesungen.

£300 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A textbook on literature by the schoolmaster J.H. Faber (1722-1791), the term ‘schönen Wissenschaften’ being the eighteenth-century German analogue for ‘Belles-lettres’. The frontispiece, engraved by Cöntgen after the author’s own design, depicts Horace reciting his Ars Poetica. In the background is a view of the city of Mainz, where Faber died in 1791.

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