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"Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche
1908
Artists
Henry van de VeldeArtist
Friedrich NietzscheAuthor
Insel VerlagPublisher
Description
Letterpress text, designs and illustrations printed in red, gold and black inks
Dimensions
closed: 37.6 × 25.5 × 3 cm (14 13/16 × 10 1/16 × 1 3/16 in.) pages: 37 × 24.8 cm (14 9/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
Provenance
[L'Art Ancien S.A., Zurich], sold; to Charles L. Kuhn, Cambridge, 1957, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1957
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