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Lot 83
Sale 5132 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2017
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$5,000 -
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$3,500
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(Literary Autograph...
(Literary Autographs). 2 pieces. (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von). Documents Signed: Weimar, Germany: 22 July, 1821. Letter in secretarial hand, closed by Goethe's bold and clear signature. Discusses matters of publishing and accounting to be addressed by his son. * Document signed, (n.p., n.d.) Written in secretarial hand(s), with Goethe's marginal notations and concluding remarks in pencil. Initialed in pencil, crossed-out in brown ink.
Provenance: from the collection of John Frederick Lewis, philanthropist, lawyer, and early 20th-century collector