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GERMAN GAZETTEER. -- Der Getreue Reiss-Gefert durch Ober- und Nieder-Teutschland. Das ist grundrichtige und ausführliche Abhandlung derer jenigen Residenzien, Städte, Schlösser ... welche so wol in Ober- als Nieder-Teutschland einem Reisenden sich hin und wieder vorstellig machen ... Nürnberg, Christoff Riegel, 1686.
12° (130 x 80 mm). Engraved double page frontispiece and 118 plates (of 120). (Lacking views of Antorff and Dresden, and possibly a map, mentioned on the title but not called for in the instructions to the binder. Clean tear in leaf E9 and in view of Halberstadt without loss of image; burnhole in margin of frontispiece slightly affecting the print.) Contemporary vellum.
VERY RARE. No copy as complete as this has been sold at auction for more than thirty years.
An attractive copy of one of the earliest known gazetteers of Germany. The towns are listed alphabetically from A-Z, and the plates are all views of towns, many minor and hardly known.
12° (130 x 80 mm). Engraved double page frontispiece and 118 plates (of 120). (Lacking views of Antorff and Dresden, and possibly a map, mentioned on the title but not called for in the instructions to the binder. Clean tear in leaf E9 and in view of Halberstadt without loss of image; burnhole in margin of frontispiece slightly affecting the print.) Contemporary vellum.
VERY RARE. No copy as complete as this has been sold at auction for more than thirty years.
An attractive copy of one of the earliest known gazetteers of Germany. The towns are listed alphabetically from A-Z, and the plates are all views of towns, many minor and hardly known.