EXCEEDINGLY RARE WORK ON HUNGARY AND THE DANUBE
RIEGEL, CHRISTOPH.
Das Ehmals gedrückte vom Türken berückte nun Trefflich erquickte Königreich Hungarn samt dessen Ströme-Fürsten der Weltberühmten Donau (...) (+) Kurze auf Warheit gegründete Erzehlung, Aller derjenigen preißwürdigen Siegs-Thaten, In Befreyung der, eine geraume Zeit, unter dem Türkischen Joch geschwebten herrlichen Halb-Insel Morea (...).
Frankfurt & Leipzig, Christoff Riegels, 1688.
12mo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light soiling to extremities. A few annotations and previous owner's name (Peter Otto Rosenørn - owner of Hersomgård) in contemporary hand to front free end-paper, a few plates with tears, otherwise internally nice and clean. (4), 1038, (6); 120, (2) pp. + 72 plates.
Exceedingly rare first (and only?) edition of this extensive and richly illustrated travel-guide to Hungary and the Danube. Riegel had published a similar work two years earlier (1686) on the German speaking areas in Europe and the Rhine, the present work by far being the rarest. We have only been able to trace one copy at auction (incomplete).
OCLC list two copies, both in The British Library.
Order-nr.: 60829
DKK 30.000,00