Author: BIRKEN, Sigmund von.
Title: Der vermehrte Donau-Strand/ mit allen seinen Ein- und Zuflüssen/ angelegenen Königreichen, Provintzen, Herrschafften und Städten/ auch dererselben alten und neuen Namen/ von Ursprung bis zum Ausflusse .. vorgestellet: auch sampt kurtzer Verfassung einer Hungar- und Türckis. Chronick/ und des Anno 1663. und 1664. geführten Türken-Krieges. Mit einer kurzen Continuation der merkwürdigsten Türkischen Kriegs-handlungen ..
Description: Nurnberg, Jacob Sandrart, 1684.16mo. Contemporary vellum. With 50 engraved plates (including 4 maps and 8 folding plates). (8), 231 pp.First published in 1664, later editions appeared in 1674, 1684, 1686, 1688 and 1690; an Italian edition was issued in 1684. Sigmund von Birken (1626 -1681), a German poet, was a member of the most important literary societies. He primarily wrote pastoral poetry and theatre plays, but also spiritual devotional literature and historiographical writings such as the present one.The plates depict the fortress along the Danube and includes views of Constantinople, Adrianople, Belgrade, etc. Sandrart produced many engravings of the Balkan and the Levant, mainly plans and views of cities and maps. (Atabey 108).Atabey Collection 108 (incomplete copy); not in Blackmer; Apponyi 1092 (Italian ed.).
Keywords: Europe Hungary Jubileum cat. Turkey
Title: Der vermehrte Donau-Strand/ mit allen seinen Ein- und Zuflüssen/ angelegenen Königreichen, Provintzen, Herrschafften und Städten/ auch dererselben alten und neuen Namen/ von Ursprung bis zum Ausflusse .. vorgestellet: auch sampt kurtzer Verfassung einer Hungar- und Türckis. Chronick/ und des Anno 1663. und 1664. geführten Türken-Krieges. Mit einer kurzen Continuation der merkwürdigsten Türkischen Kriegs-handlungen ..
Description: Nurnberg, Jacob Sandrart, 1684.16mo. Contemporary vellum. With 50 engraved plates (including 4 maps and 8 folding plates). (8), 231 pp.First published in 1664, later editions appeared in 1674, 1684, 1686, 1688 and 1690; an Italian edition was issued in 1684. Sigmund von Birken (1626 -1681), a German poet, was a member of the most important literary societies. He primarily wrote pastoral poetry and theatre plays, but also spiritual devotional literature and historiographical writings such as the present one.The plates depict the fortress along the Danube and includes views of Constantinople, Adrianople, Belgrade, etc. Sandrart produced many engravings of the Balkan and the Levant, mainly plans and views of cities and maps. (Atabey 108).Atabey Collection 108 (incomplete copy); not in Blackmer; Apponyi 1092 (Italian ed.).
Keywords: Europe Hungary Jubileum cat. Turkey
Price: EUR 3025.00 = appr. US$ 3287.71 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 28854
- Book number: 28854