GOETHE (Johann Wolfgang von). The Sufferings of Young Werther in two parts. Erlang: Wolfgang Walther, 1776. - In-8, speckled cardboard, smooth spine, edges jaspée (period binding). Rare first edition of the first French translation of "Les Souffrances du jeune Werther", the famous epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). This translation, by Baron Carl Sigmund von Seckendorf (1744-1785), was published just two years after the original German edition (1774). A good copy in contemporary boards. One hinge torn, manuscript title-piece and head-cap missing, abrasions to boards. Provenance: Fouché, with signature on first endpaper.