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Wednesday 20 November 2024 e Thursday 21 November 2024, 04:00 PM • Rome

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Birken, Sigmund von

The Origin of the Danube, 1685

Estimate

€ 200 - 400

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Information

Nuremberg and Bologna, Giuseppe Longhi, 1685. in 12°. With 33 copper-engraved and folded plates and views (4 plates missing). The plates illustrate some cities mentioned in the text (such as Belgrade, Constantinople, Ulm, Passau), a drawing (full page) of the "great and horrible comet" that appeared in the year 1680 and coins printed in memory of the liberation of Vienna. Contemporary parchment binding. Stains and defects on the binding. The lot cannot be returned.

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