Prag & Leipzig, Albrecht und Compagnie (vol. 1-2), 1793 - 1795 and Leipzig, Kleefeld, 1796 (vol. 3). 8vo. Uniformly bound in three contemporary (original?) red paper covered board with tome and title label with gilt lettering to spine. Title-vignette to each title-page with contemporary hand colouring. Extremities with misoluring and wear to spines. Internally very nice and clean. (4), XI, (3), 287 pp. (6), 288 pp. VI, 247 pp.
Uncommon first edition of Albrecht's popular exposition of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht (1752—1814), a physician who abandoned his profession to devote himself to literature, perhaps best known for a prose adaptation of Schiller's Don Carlos.