History of the ’Swedish Age of Greatness’

Samuel von Pufendorf:

Commentariorum de rebus suecicis libri XXVI. Ab expeditione Gustavi Adolfi regis in Germaniam ad abdicationem usque Christinæ.

Ultrajecti (Utrecht), Johannes Ribbius, 1686. Folio. (40,5 x 24,5 cms.) [14] + 546, 529-1044 + [26] pp. (last leaf with errata) + engraved title + engraved frontispiece portrait.

Somewhat worn and soiled contemporary full vellum, ms title on spine. Portrait trimmed within platemark and laid down, initial leaves incl. portrait, engraved title and letterpress title repaired in upper inner corner (mending a few small wormholes), some slight occasional spotting, foxing and staining, a few insignificant paper flaws, stain from a pressed flower (?) on page 546. Provenance: H. Adlerschöld (deleted signature on title), Chr. Myhrman (signature on title), and a 19th-century inscription on front pastedown from C. J. Pålman to C. Petrelli.

Collijn col. 742. Warmholtz 4384. First edition of Pufendorf’s history of the ’Swedish Age of Greatness’ from Gustav II Adolf and the Thirty years’ war until the abdication of Queen Christina.

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