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Aesthetics, German -- 18th century

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• Aesthetics, German
• 18th century

• Klassische Schönheit (E. Diederichs, 1906), by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Alexander Gleichen-Russwurm, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schillers Ästhetik im Verhältnis zur Kantischen : (Teildruck) (C.F. Winter, 1912), by Willy Rosalewski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Herzensergiessungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders (F. A. Herbig, 1822), by Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and Ludwig Tieck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die deutsche Litterärgeschichte der Kunst im 18. Jahrhundert. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft ... ([Karlsruhe], 1916), by Kurt Karl Eberlein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance: Transnational Theater, Literature, and Film in Contemporary Germany (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Claudia Breger (PDF at Ohio State)
• Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der Deutschen Romantik (in German; Bern: A. Francke, 1920), by Walter Benjamin (page images in Germany)
• Tasso, oder, Kunst des juste milieu : ein Wink für die Jugend (Erich Reiss, 1921), by Carl Sternheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik (A. Scholem, 1920), by Walter Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kants Kritik der Utreilskraft ; ihre Geschichte und Systematik. (Niemeyer, 1923), by Alfred Baeumler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die deutsche Litterärgeschichte der Kunst im 18. Jahrhundert. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft ... ([Karlsruhe], 1916), by Kurt Karl Eberlein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The genesis of the theory of "art for art's sake" in Germany and in England : part II (Departments of Modern Languages of Smith College, 1924), by Rose Frances Egan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• Nietzsche and Art (London: Constable and Co., 1911), by Anthony M. Ludovici
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • illustrated HTML at anthonymludovici.com
• Nietzsche and Art (Boston: J. W. Luce and Co., 1912), by Anthony M. Ludovici (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Kunstanschauung Wilhelm Müllers; ein Beitrag zum Verständnis und zur Würdigung seiner künstlerischen Persönlichkeit. (Buchdr. R. Noske, 1908), by Aloys Joseph Becker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• Johann Adolf Schlegels poetische Theorie, in ihrem historischen Zusammenhange untersucht (Mayer & Mu ller, 1912), by Hugo Bieber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johann Adolf Schlegels poetische Theorie, in ihrem historischen Zusammenhange untersucht : Teil I. (s.n.], 1911), by Hugo Bieber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Lives of the philosophers of the time of George III. (Griffin, 1862), by Lord Brougham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ketubah ʻAmādīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1798), by Ḥasan ben ʻEzra, ʹSarah bat Leṿi, and Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ketubah de-irkhesa ʻAmādīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, in the 18th century), by Eliyah ben Refael and Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Don Quixote. (Printed for P. Wilson, 1747), by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Gregorio Mayans y Siscar, John Ozell, and Charles Jervas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nota delle stampe intagliate dalli quadri, è disegni del sig.r cau:r Maratti. (1700), by Jakob Frey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Essays, on picturesque beauty &c. &c. &c. (Printed for R. Blamire, 1792), by William Gilpin and R. Blamire (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (originally published 1995; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald Paulson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in XVIII-Century England (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1935), by Samuel Holt Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to the Dilettanti Society, respecting the obtention of certain matters essentially necessary for the improvement of public taste, and for accomplishing the original views of the Royal Academy of Great-Britain (Printed for J. Walker ..., 1799), by James Barry and England) Society of Dilettanti (London (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Aesthetic Thought of the French Enlightenment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1971), by Francis X. J. Coleman (page images at Pitt)
• The Genius of Architecture; or, The Analogy of That Art with Our Sensations (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Robin Middleton (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Raccolta di operette filosofiche e filologiche scritte nel secolo XVIII. (Società tipog. de' classici italiani, 1832), by Giovanni Gaetano Bottari (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2012), by Elliott Schreiber (PDF and Epub at Cornell Open)
• The Role of the Sublime in Kant's Moral Metaphysics, by John R. Goodreau (PDF at crvp.org)
• Die Kritik der rationalen Ästhetik in England im achtzehnten Jahrhundert (s.n.], 1912), by H. Bruce Wallace (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Laocoon : an essay upon the limits of painting and poetry : with remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art (Roberts Brothers, 1877), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Ellen Frothingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critik der Urtheilskraft ([s. n.], 1792), by Immanuel Kant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herder's Kritische Wälder (Gustav Hempel, 1879), by Johann Gottfried Herder and Heinrich Düntzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres familières de M. Winckelmann. (Chez Couturier fils, libraire ..., 1781), by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Angelica Kauffmann, and Christian Gottlob Heyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres familieres de M. Winckelmann : avec Les oeuvres de M. le Chevalier Mengs. ([publisher not identified], 1784), by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Anton Raphael Mengs, and Christian Gottlob Heyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen (Bey Friedrich Hartknoch, 1771), by Immanuel Kant and Johann Friedrich Hartknoch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carta apologetica e analytica que pela ingenuidade da pintura, em quanto sciencia (Na regia Officina Silviana ..., 1752), by José Gomes da Cruz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winckelmanns Briefe an seine Freunde : mit einigen Zusätzen und litterarischen Anmerkungen (In der Walterischen Hofbuchhandlung, 1777), by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Karl Wilhelm Dassdorf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, fait en 1795, 1796 et 1797 (Dentu, Carteret, 1799), by Mungo Park, Carteret, Dentu, J. Castéra, James Rennell, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels to discover the Source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five Volumes (printed by J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson ..., London, 1790), by James 1730-1794 Bruce, Francisco Guerra, Arthur Howard Southey, J. Robinson, Georges G. Robinson, J. Ruthven, and James Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels to discover the Source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five Volumes (printed by J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson ..., London, 1790), by James 1730-1794 Bruce, Francisco Guerra, Arthur Howard Southey, J. Robinson, Georges G. Robinson, J. Ruthven, and James Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels to discover the Source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five Volumes (printed by J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson ..., London, 1790), by James 1730-1794 Bruce, Francisco Guerra, Arthur Howard Southey, J. Robinson, Georges G. Robinson, and J. Ruthven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage aux sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssynie, pendant les années 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 ([s.n.], 1790), by James 1730-1794 Bruce, William Paterson, and Jean Henri Castera (page images at HathiTrust)

• Voyages de Monsr. Shaw, M. D. dans plusieurs provinces de la Barbarie et du Levant : contenant des observations geographiques, physiques, philologiques et melées sur les Royaumes d'Alger et de Tunis, sur la Syrie, l'Egypte et l'Arabie Petrée. Avec des cartes et des figures. Traduits de l'Anglois. (Chez Jean Neaulme, 1743), by Thomas Shaw and Jan Neaulme (page images at HathiTrust)

• Voyages en Guinée et dans les iles caraïbes en Amérique (Chez Maradan..., 1793), by Paul Erdmann Isert and Maradan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gentleman's companion. (Printed for the author, 1753), by Gervase Markham and Thomas Trye (page images at HathiTrust)

• Raccolta di vari disegni d'architettura, 1796-1797. (1796), by Gaudenzio fl. 1790-1799 Honorati, Giovanni Stern, Michele Sanmicheli, Giacomo Quarenghi, Alessandro Pompei, Claude Perrault, and Carnaby Haggerston (page images at HathiTrust)

• [Derashot]. (Columbia University Libraries, in the 18th century), by Ḥayyim ben Yehudah Toledano, Yosef Ḥazan, Ḥayyim Moses ben Solomon Amarillo, ha-Leṿi Refaʼel, Ḥayyim ben Benjamin Asael, Israel Jacob ben Yom Tov Algazi, Avraham Gaṭinyo, Isaac ben Judah Rappaport, Hezekiah ben David da Silva, Samuel Primo, Daṿid ben Hezekiah ben David da Silva, Maḥita Toledano, ʻAmram be Sʹasson Levi, Eliʻezer Toledano, and Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University. Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)

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