Johann Ludwig Gottfried (1584-1633)

Matthäus Merian (1593-1650)

HISTORISCHE CHRONIK ODER BESCHREIBUNG DER MERKWÜRDIGSTEN GESCHICHTE... ERSTER THEIL

Frankfurt nad Mohanem, Philipp Heinrich Hutter, 1743
... So sich von Anfang der Welt bis auf das Jahr Christi 1619. zugetragen. (...) Mit 156. kleinen Portraits und 328. Merianischen Kupfer-Stichen gezieret. (...) Erster Theil. Franckfurt am Mayn, In Verlag Philipp Heinrich Hutters. M DCC XLIII. Book format 4°, 34x20 cm. [6], XXXI., [12], 1184, [138] numbered pages, in German. Title page printed in black and red. More than 300 copper engravings in text and 31 portrait prints (4 missing) mostly by Matthäus Merian the Elder, initials, friezes, vignettes. Hardcover leather binding on wooden boards, spine with 5 raised bands. 1st volume (the next 2 volumes were published in 1745 and 1759), eighth and final edition (first published in 1629/1630). Torn binding, falling apart, book block intact, missing frontispiece and portrait plates III-VI, some other pages partially preserved, soiled, creased, bent corners, affected by insects, moisture stains.