PUFENDORF, SAMUEL. De rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sveciæ rege gestis commentariorum libri septem... cum triplici indice. (I-II.) Norimbergae (Nürnberg) (sumptibus Chr. Riegelii. Liber Bielingianis) 1729. Folio. (10), (5), 6-362; (5), 368-626, (2), 3-53, (9, lacks last unpaginated leaf) pp. Engraved frontispiece, 12 engraved portraits (all, 2 somewhat reinforced in outer margin), 115 engraved plates (including the funeral plate joined together, which gives 128 plates in all, minor foxing). Title with engraved vignette, some other engraved vignettes. Contemporary brown full mottled calf, very slightly worn, faded gilt edges of covers, richly gilt spine in seven compartments, red spine label, redspeckled edges. Some minor foxing. Signature of U. Celsing on first endpaper. The first edition was published in latin 1696, and a second latin edition in 1729. In 1697 a German and 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.) Provenance: The von Celsing family, Biby. Photo.
PUFENDORF, SAMUEL. De rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sveciæ rege gestis commentariorum libri septem... cum triplici indice. (I-II.) Norimbergae (Nürnberg) (sumptibus Chr. Riegelii. Liber Bielingianis) 1729. Folio. (10), (5), 6-362; (5), 368-626, (2), 3-53, (9, lacks last unpaginated leaf) pp. Engraved frontispiece, 12 engraved portraits (all, 2 somewhat reinforced in outer margin), 115 engraved plates (including the funeral plate joined together, which gives 128 plates in all, minor foxing). Title with engraved vignette, some other engraved vignettes. Contemporary brown full mottled calf, very slightly worn, faded gilt edges of covers, richly gilt spine in seven compartments, red spine label, redspeckled edges. Some minor foxing. Signature of U. Celsing on first endpaper. The first edition was published in latin 1696, and a second latin edition in 1729. In 1697 a German and 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.) Provenance: The von Celsing family, Biby. Photo.
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