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

Folio (355x229 mm). Engraved extra title, printed title with engraved vignette, 11 engraved portraits (of 12, the portrait of Pufendorf missing, substituted by an other portrait by Ioseph à Montalegre, mounted on verso of half-title), 115 partly double-page or folding engraved maps (in reality127, all, the large furneral plate consists of 12 plates, here joined together, some mended tears in lower margin, minor foxing), some engraved vignettes and initials.

Contemporary brown full calf, somewhat worn, partly renovated, mended in the joints, gilt spine (floral ornaments) in seven compartments, mended at head, raised bands partly renovated, gilt partly gauffered edges, later endpapers. Bookplate of Kristofer Enckell.

Collation: (6), (5), 6-734 (lacks pp. 643-646), (64, last leaf [blank?] signed Hhhhh4 missing), (2), 3-24 pp.
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).

Auktionsnummer:

6098

Datum:

2019-12-11