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Beskrivning

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, 11 engraved portraits (of 12, one missing), 111 partly double-page or folding engraved maps (of 127, lacks 4 plates and about 6 from the large furneral plate consisting complete of 12 plates, many plates partly glued to text in inner margins, and also glued together in inner part, some tears and some creasing, some spotting and foxing), some engraved vignettes and initials.
Contemporary brown full calf, very worn, cracked in upper joint, lacking clasps and one fitting, faded gilt spine in six compartments, damages at head and foot. Some foxing and spotting, some tears and other damages.

In the beginning withbound 3 engraved portraits (worn) and a textleave from another work, at end 5 partly defective leaves from a bible with woodcut illustrations.

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).

Konditionsrapport

Not complete. Lacking plates, defects, spotting and soiling. Binding damaged and worn.

Auktionsnummer:

675613

Datum:

2019-09-20