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LOEN, Johann Michael von (editor). Neue Sammlung der merkwürdenigsten Reisegeschichten, insonderheit der bewährtesten Nachrichten von den Ländern und Völkern des ganzen Erdkrieses. Frankfurt am Main [and Leipzig (vols.II-VII)]: Gebrüdern van Düren, 1748-1754. 7 volumes, 4° (254 x 203mm). Titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, 115 engraved plates only (lacking at least one folding plate in vol.V), 53 folding. (3 folding plates in vol.I torn, two plates shaved at upper margin in vol.I, occasional browning or staining.) Contemporary mottled calf (joints worn). -- Marcus VELSERUS. Opera Historica et Philologica, Sacra et Profana. Nuremburg: 1682. 2° (326 x 200mm). 18 pp. of acrostics printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (torn and repaired), 57 engravings (plates, maps, vignettes and illustrations, including a 'strip'-map spanning 12 double-page sheets). Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, clasps. Provenance: Berchtsgarten, Ducal Church (inscription noting its removal from the church in 1685). -- and 3 others (Johann BECKMANN. Litteratur der älteren Reisebeschreibungen. 1808-1810. 2 volumes, 8°; RUMPF & BARTHOLDI (editors). Gallerie der Welt. 1803-1804. Vol.IV only, 4°). (11)