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PUFENDORF, SAMUEL VON. Sieben Bücher von denen Thaten Carl Gustavs Königs in Schweden... Nürnberg (Chr. Riegel) 1697.

Folio (355x229 mm). (6), (5), 6-734, (64, Last leaf [blank?] signed Hhhhh4 missing), (2), 3-24 pp.
Engraved extra title, printed title with engraved vignette, 12 engraved portraits, 115 partly double-page or folding engraved maps (in reality 127, all, the large furneral plate consists of 12 plates, here joined together in 2 sections of 6 plates each, 1 plate with small hole, 4 plates with mended marginal tears, some tears in the folding, some creasing, minor foxing), some engraved vignettes and initials.
Contemporary brown full calf, somewhat worn, slightly renovated, gilt floral border, gilt inner border, gilt edges of covers, somewhat faded gilt spine (floral ornaments) in seven compartments, gilt partly gauffered edges, later endpapers. Inscription on first free endpaper "Till Hans Ihre från farfar och farmor den dag han blef student 13 maj 1918", bookplate of J. D. Silfverstolpe.

This is the first and only German edition.
The first edition was published in Latin 1696, and a second Latin edition in 1729. In 1697 a French edition was also published.
The writing of this official history of the Swedish wars with Poland and Denmark from 1655 to 1660 was entrusted by king Charles XI to Samuel Pufendorf, a German historian and expert on international law, who held the first chair of history at the new university of Lund (1668-1676) and was the official Historiographer of the Realm from 1676 until 1689. (Sten G. Lindberg: Swedish Books 1280-1967).

Johan David Silfverstolpe (1766-1833), militär, överste i Generalstaben och i arméen, se Carlander III:s. 151-152.

Auktionsnummer:

6105

Datum:

2017-06-20