Zimmermann, Johann Georg. About loneliness. 4 volumes. 17 x 10 cm. Semi-leather d. C. (something rubbed, lightly bruised and damaged) with 2 gold stamped R signs (one with a small flaw). Frankfurt and Leipzig, Weidmann's heirs and empire, 1784-1785. See Goedeke IV/1, 482, 7c. Hayn-Gotendorf VIII, 654. Rümann 1300. Lanckoronska-Oehler II, 35. Borst 494. – Reprint of the first edition of the Hauptwerk by Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728-1795). "This book on loneliness was supposed to inspire me in my tribulations, to tear me away from everything I saw and thought, to move me to foreign lands, to evoke images from distant centuries in me, perhaps even my soul here and there freyed by a pressing thought" (p. XIII). – In places low brownish-spotted, intent with hs. Possession note.