496 - Saxony – Zittau
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Estimate €400 - €600

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Saxony – Zittau Carpzov, Johann Benedict *Analecta Fastorum Zittaviensium* or *Historical Survey of the Praiseworthy Ancient Six-City of the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia, Zittau*. With an engraved frontispiece, 6 (4 double-page) copperplate plates and several woodcuts in the text. Zittau, Schöps, 1716. 4°. 16 leaves, 312, 319 pp., 10 leaves in contemporary half-leather binding on 6 bands (slightly rubbed and scuffed). First edition of this comprehensive town chronicle. - ADB IV, 22. - Bemmann/Jatzwauk III.2, p. 309 - Also contains a list of disasters and conflagrations, chapters on weather and meteorites, birth defects, unusual events, sudden deaths, etc. The double-page plates feature a general view and a map of the town, as well as two views of Oybin; the other plates contain illustrations of coats of arms and seals. – Name on the endpaper, partly browned.

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496 - Saxony – Zittau See original version (German)

496 - Saxony – Zittau
See original version (German)