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THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN
Two parts in one volume, folio (335x215 mm). [6], 54, [2] pp.; [2], 217 [recte 219], [3] pp. With several errors in pagination. Collation: [π]3 A-O2; 2[π]1 (A)-(Z)2 (Aa)-(Zz)2 (Aaa)-(Kkk)2. With a folding allegorical frontispiece within a baroque cartouche and 6 plates (4 folding), showing a mezzotint portrait of Margrave Friedrich III, a city map of Erlangen, the ceremonial entry of the founders, the university building, the portrait of the first chancellor Daniel de Superville, and commemorative medallions. Also with several engraved illustrations in text depicting coats of arms and coins. The plates are engraved by Georg Paul Nusbiegel, Christian Fritzsch, Tobias Lobeck, Franz Michael Regenfuss, and Andreas Nunzer after Gottfried Eichler and R.H. Richter. Latin text in roman types and German text in gothic types. Encomium by Johann Wilhelm Gadendam. Last leaf of part one reads: Additamenta Historiam Fridericianae Erlangensis illustrantia et probantia… Leer más

4to (197x146 mm). [32], 311, [13] pp. Collation: *-****4 A-Rr4 Ss2. Woodcut initials and printer's decorations. Blind-tooled leather boards, with raised bands and gilt title on spine (boards scuffed, with significant edgewear, small losses to leather and cracking at joints, light cracking at front hinge, binding still sturdy). From the collection of Prof. Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C. Pages lightly toned with minimal foxing and occasional small chip or frayed bottom edge, light damp staining throughout, small ink stains in the lower margins of pp. 252-253 not affecting the text. A good, genuine copy.
Extremely rare first English edition of this collection of letters and essays put together by the author's friends, in the transaltion of Nicholas Ferrar (1592-1637), the founder of Little Gidding, the 'Arminian Nunnery', where the Ferrar family lived under a definite religious rule from 1625 to 1646. The edition also contains a publisher's note to the reader, the Considerations by George Herbert… Leer más