The Fugger News-Letters First & Second Series

A smart set of reprints of the first and second series of The Fugger News-Letters, translated from the original German. Two volumes. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-nine plates. Volume two is illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-five images across thirty-nine plates. Collated complete. 'Fuggerzeitungen' is a term used in Germany to refer to sixteenth century handwritten newsletter. Historically, it directly derives from a collection of such newsletters put together by Octavian Secundus and Philipp Eduard Fugger. These volumes containing the Fugger News-Letters from 1568 to 1605, covering topics from the execution of Count Egmont and Count Horn in Brussels, to the establishment of the Dutch in Brazil, and much more. Edited by Victor von Klarwill, an Austrian author and editor. Translated by Pauline de Chary. With a foreword by Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr., an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. With publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpapers. Very Good.…