FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN OF PUFENDORF, Sieben Bücher von denen Thaten Carl Gustavs Königs in Schweden, Nürnberg 1697.
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PUFENDORF, SAMUEL VON. Sieben Bücher von denen Thaten Carl Gustavs Königs in Schweden... Nürnberg (Christoph Riegel) 1697.
Folio (350x225 mm.). Engraved extra title, printed title with engraved vignette, 12 engraved portraits, substituted by an other portrait by Ioseph à Montalegre, mounted on verso of half-title), 115 partly double-page or folding engraved maps (which gives 127 plates in all, the large furneral plate placed at the end consists of 12 plates, here joined together (some spotting, some folding plates with some staining, 2 folding plates with repairs to folds, some foxing), some engraved vignettes and initials.
Contemporary blindtooled vellum binding with (new) leather ties, bound by Georg Hornbein, partly rubbed and worn, partly with warped boards, some spotting, spine in compartments with gilt title "Carl Gustavs Thaten" and the years of his reign below, gilt edges. (Georg Hornbein (Memmingen 1594-1649 Stockholm), active 1624-49.). Text with some spotting and foxing, pp. 15/16 with long repaired tear, pp. 545-46 with repaired tear in outer margin.
Collation: (6), (5), 6-734, (64), (2), 3-24 pp.
Provenance: The family of Coyet, Torup castle, Sweden.
Collijn 743. The first edition was published in Latin in 1696. This is the first and only edition in German, published the same year as the French. A second Latin edition was published in 1729.
With portraits of Charles XI, the author, Christina, Charles X (Gustav), Hedvig Eleonora, Brahe, Wrangel, Stenbock a.o.
Large folding plates of Warzaw, Krakow and Copenhagen.
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.)
See catalogue text.
