GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig. Historische Chronica oder Beschriebung der fürnehmsten Geschichten so sich von Anfang der Welt biss auf das Jahr Christi 1619. [Frankfurt:] M. Merian, 1710. 2° (325 x 205mm). Title with engraved printer's device, engraved title (two neat repairs along platemark), engraved folding map of the world (at pp. 368-9), folding engraved map of Ostend (at pp. 986-7), engraved illustrations throughout. (Short tear at Zzz4 neatly repaired, marginal tear at Yyy2, first quire loose.) Old vellum, ruled and stamped in blind, manuscript title on spien (slightly soiled). Provenance: Heinrich Stiebel (bookplate). Cf. Graesse III, p. 122. -- Johann David KOEHLER. Gründliche Erzehlung der Merckwürdigsten Welt-Geschichten Aller Zeiten. Nuremberg: Christoph Weigel, 1726-22. 4° (190 x 155mm). Title in red and black, title to 1722 edition in red and black, with engraved vignette, folding engraved title (neatly repaired), 44 etched plates. (Lacking engraved dedication, plate of text and 4 other plates, and all text after Iiii3, apparently 1 leaf of index, some dampstaining and spotting, a little occasional worming to lower margin, sometimes affecting a few letters of text.) Later half sheep, spine gilt in six compartments, black morocco lettering-piece in one. And 5 other historical works in 14 volumes (J. L. GOTTFRIED. Historische Chronick. Frankfurt: 1743-59. 3 volumes, 2°; Count Galeazzo GUALDO-PRIORATO. Historia di Francia. [Venice?; after 1648.] 2°; imperfect; J. ISELIN. Neu-vermehrtes historich-und geographisches allgemeines Lexicon. Basel: 1742-44. 6 vols., 2°. 3rd edition; Caius Julius CAESAR. Commentaires . . . avec des notes historiques, critiques et militaires. Edited by Count Turpin de Crissé. Montargis: 1785. 3 volumes, large 4°; Martinus MARTINI. De Bello Tartarico Historia. Amsterdam: 1655. 12°). The lot sold not subject to return. (16)