Antique Dante Divine Comedy, 1873 – All 3 Parts in One Book

Antique Dante Divine Comedy – All Three Parts in One Book, 1873

This antique 1873 German edition of Dante Alighieri’s Die göttliche Komödie contains all three parts, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, bound together in one physical book. It is not a set of three separate books.

Published by F. A. Brockhaus in Leipzig, the edition features the German translation and explanations by Karl Ludwig Kannegiesser, in the fifth revised edition edited by Karl Witte. The photographed title page marked “Erster Theil” belongs to the first part within this combined volume.

A portrait of Dante, a folding diagram of the Inferno and a folding map of northern and central Italy are visible in the photographs. The worn brown spine and dark textured boards give this nineteenth-century literary volume a distinctive antique character.

Book details

• Author: Dante Alighieri.
• Title: Die göttliche Komödie des Dante Alighieri.
• Contents: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, all three parts bound in one book.
• Translation and commentary: Karl Ludwig Kannegiesser.
• Editor: Karl Witte.
• Edition: Fünfte umgearbeitete Auflage, fifth revised edition.
• Publisher: F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1873.
• Language: German, printed in historical blackletter type.
• Binding: Dark textured boards with a brown leather spine and corners, with decorative spine lettering.
• Size: Approximately 18 × 13 cm.
• Estimated unpacked weight: Ca. 450 g.

Condition – Please Read Carefully

Pre-owned antique condition with substantial age-related wear. The binding shows pronounced rubbing, scuffing and wear to the spine, corners and board edges. Pages show browning and foxing, with conspicuous spotting around the portrait and title pages. Stamps, handwritten numbers and ownership or institutional markings are visible.

Please study every photograph carefully. The photographs form an important part of the condition description.