Accession number
Heineman 664
Creator
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Published
Tübingen : In der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1810.
Credit line
Gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Notes
Dedication dated 30 Jan. 1808; cf. Speck 2289.
Errata for v. 1-2: v. 2, p. [758].
Includes index.
The printing of v.1 began in 1806, & the 1st half of that volume (to p.352) was completed in 1807; a few copies of this part of pt. 1 are recorded with a t.-p. dated 1808, but both volumes were first published in 1810; cf. Günther Schmid, Goethe und die Naturwissenschaften (Halle, 1940) p. 18-20, & Hagen 347.
The plates include one numbered IIa; the atlas is printed in a larger format (quarto) than the text (8vo).
Attack on Newton's theory of colors.
Atlas titled: Erklärung der zu Goethe's Farbenlehre gehörigen Tafeln; its cover-title: Sechszehn Tafeln nebst der Erklärung zu Goethes Farbenlehre. Includes prospectus for work with caption-title: Anzeige und Uebersicht des Goethischen Werkes Zur Farbenlehre.
Errata for v. 1-2: v. 2, p. [758].
Includes index.
The printing of v.1 began in 1806, & the 1st half of that volume (to p.352) was completed in 1807; a few copies of this part of pt. 1 are recorded with a t.-p. dated 1808, but both volumes were first published in 1810; cf. Günther Schmid, Goethe und die Naturwissenschaften (Halle, 1940) p. 18-20, & Hagen 347.
The plates include one numbered IIa; the atlas is printed in a larger format (quarto) than the text (8vo).
Attack on Newton's theory of colors.
Atlas titled: Erklärung der zu Goethe's Farbenlehre gehörigen Tafeln; its cover-title: Sechszehn Tafeln nebst der Erklärung zu Goethes Farbenlehre. Includes prospectus for work with caption-title: Anzeige und Uebersicht des Goethischen Werkes Zur Farbenlehre.
Description
2 v. (xlviii, 654 ; xxviii, 757 p.) ; 21 cm + atlas (24, 12 p.,16 [i.e. 17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm)
Provenance
Dannie and Hettie Heineman.
Binding
Quarter brown calf with mottled paper covers ; Atlas bound in 3/4 green morocco, with gilt to spine.
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