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PUFENDORF, SAMUEL. De rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sueciae rege gestis commentariorum libri septem. 12 engraved portraits; 115 double-page plates with 116 subjects, mostly city plans and views and scenes of land and naval battles, including giant panorama of Stockholm on 13 joined sheets measuring approximately 365x4415 mm, depicting the procession and naval salute for the funeral of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden. [12], 626, [2]; 53, [11] pages, including half-title, engraved additional title, and leaf of binder's directions at end. Folio, 372x226 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, front cover detached; intermittent foxing or heavy browning of text, some plates toned. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Dowdeswell Esqr. of Pull Court, Worcestershire; booklabels of Pull Court Library and Helmut Friedlaender. Nuremberg: Christoph Riegel for Johann Leonhard Knorz, 1696
first edition of the profusely illustrated official history of the 1655-1660 war for territorial expansion waged by Sweden against its neighbors in the southern Baltic. The war was terminated by the Treaty of Oliva following the death of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden in 1660. Lindberg, Swedish Books 38.
