WAGNER, Johann Christoph. Delineatio provinciarum Pannoniae et imperii Turcici in oriente. Eine grundrichtige Beschreibung deß ganzen Aufgangs sonderlich aber deß hochlöblichen Königreichs Ungarn und der ganzen Türckey. Augsburg: Jacob Koppmayer, 1684-1685. 2 volumes, 2° (298 x 196mm). Titles printed in red and black. Fraktur type. Engraved frontispieces, including one double-page, 5 maps, including 2 folding, 77 plates, including 53 folding, 18 double-page and one folding plate bearing 2 engravings, and illustrations. Woodcut illustrations, 4 full-page, head- and tailpieces and initials. (Variable light browning and offsetting on text, heavier in volume II, a few text leaves and some plates with old repairs or reinforcements, volume I with frontispiece trimmed and slightly wormed and title remargined at foot touching imprint.) Contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine compartments with morocco lettering-pieces and central flower vase tool (extremities lightly rubbed, a few scuff marks on boards and unobtrusive wormholes on the spines, hinges partially split), red-speckled edges. Provenance : early manuscript pressmarks on the upper pastedowns. FIRST EDITION. A RARE AND WIDE-RANGING ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, COSTUME AND OTHER ASPECTS OF THE HOLY ROMAN AND OTTOMAN EMPIRES, covering a large area including the Balkans, the near and middle East, northern Africa, Europe and Russia. In the second volume, two leaf-sized engravings have been printed on one sheet which has been bound in as a folding plate, giving the volume the correct complement of 40 plates. Graesse VII, p. 409; Hiler p. 889; Lipperheide Lb22; not in Blackmer or Atabey. (2)
WAGNER, Johann Christoph. Delineatio provinciarum Pannoniae et imperii Turcici in oriente. Eine grundrichtige Beschreibung deß ganzen Aufgangs sonderlich aber deß hochlöblichen Königreichs Ungarn und der ganzen Türckey. Augsburg: Jacob Koppmayer, 1684-1685. 2 volumes, 2° (298 x 196mm). Titles printed in red and black. Fraktur type. Engraved frontispieces, including one double-page, 5 maps, including 2 folding, 77 plates, including 53 folding, 18 double-page and one folding plate bearing 2 engravings, and illustrations. Woodcut illustrations, 4 full-page, head- and tailpieces and initials. (Variable light browning and offsetting on text, heavier in volume II, a few text leaves and some plates with old repairs or reinforcements, volume I with frontispiece trimmed and slightly wormed and title remargined at foot touching imprint.) Contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine compartments with morocco lettering-pieces and central flower vase tool (extremities lightly rubbed, a few scuff marks on boards and unobtrusive wormholes on the spines, hinges partially split), red-speckled edges. Provenance : early manuscript pressmarks on the upper pastedowns. FIRST EDITION. A RARE AND WIDE-RANGING ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, COSTUME AND OTHER ASPECTS OF THE HOLY ROMAN AND OTTOMAN EMPIRES, covering a large area including the Balkans, the near and middle East, northern Africa, Europe and Russia. In the second volume, two leaf-sized engravings have been printed on one sheet which has been bound in as a folding plate, giving the volume the correct complement of 40 plates. Graesse VII, p. 409; Hiler p. 889; Lipperheide Lb22; not in Blackmer or Atabey. (2)
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