Live auction - Lot 1458
[Germany - Saxe-Gotha]
Gotha diplomatica, oder Ausführliche historische Beschreibung des Fürstenthums Sachsen-Gotha [...].
Frankfurt a. Main, Leipzig, Chr. Gensch, [1711-1717]
€ 350 / 450
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Lot description
Folio: [16]-8-50-[22]-316-[8]-331-[1] pp., ff. 332-334, pp. 335-376, [154] ff. (toned).
Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine with gilt label, blue edges (soiled). Very good copy.
Initial 2 volumes + final part (tables) of an extensively documented history of Gotha and Saxony by the archivist Fr. Rudolphi (1642-1722), completed in 6 vol. 1711-1717, with the genealogical tables by his son-in-law Hans Basilius von Gleichenstein. 2 full-page engraved portraits as frontispiece (Friedrich II of Saxony and Magdalena Augusta). 24 double-page and 50 full-page (incl. 8 folding) engravings (of ?, 1 loosely inserted). Large woodcut arms on title and part titles.
Ref. Opac BSB. - Not (yet) in VD18.