PUFENDORF, SAMUEL VON. Sieben Bücher von denen Thaten Carl Gustavs Königs in Schweden... Nürnberg (Chr. Riegel) 1697. Folio (360x233). (13), 6-734, (66), (2), 3- 24 pp. Engraved extra title, 12 engraved portraits (some minor foxing, some soiling in lower outer corner), 113 partly double-page or folding engraved maps (of 127, lacks the large furneral plate consistingof 12 plates and plates 3 and 64, 5 plates with marginal repairs or mended tears, some minor foxing), some engraved vignettes. Contemporary somewhat worn brown full leather faded richly gilt spines in seven compartments, some small damages at head and foot. 2 volumes. Photo. 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.)
PUFENDORF, SAMUEL VON. Sieben Bücher von denen Thaten Carl Gustavs Königs in Schweden... Nürnberg (Chr. Riegel) 1697. Folio (360x233). (13), 6-734, (66), (2), 3- 24 pp. Engraved extra title, 12 engraved portraits (some minor foxing, some soiling in lower outer corner), 113 partly double-page or folding engraved maps (of 127, lacks the large furneral plate consistingof 12 plates and plates 3 and 64, 5 plates with marginal repairs or mended tears, some minor foxing), some engraved vignettes. Contemporary somewhat worn brown full leather faded richly gilt spines in seven compartments, some small damages at head and foot. 2 volumes. Photo. 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.)
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