RIEMER, JOHANN.

Uber-Reicher Schatz-Meister aller Hohen, Standes und Bürgerlichen Freud- und Leid-Complimente (...).

Leipzig & Frankfurt, Caspar Lunitz, 1681.

8vo. In contemporary vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Traces from old paper-label to spine. Soiling to extremities. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Frontispiece closely trimmed in upper margin with minor loss, otherwise internally nice and clean. (14), 735 pp. 


First edition of this rare compendium on poetry, rhetoric and oratory including a dictionary with rhyme-pairs. Of all the works on rhetoric and eloquence published in the period this present is considered one of the best.

Riemer (1648-1714) studied theology and rhetoric in Jena and taught eloquence and poetry as the successor to Christian Weise at the Gymnasium of Weissenfels.

Krause 427
Harold Jantz collection, no. 2115
Not in Goedeke

Order-nr.: 60999


DKK 12.000,00