Baron Kunitz (1 results)

Four short books related to the second siege of Vienna in 1683, bound into one volume. The first book features an engraved frontispiece (portrait of Ernst Rüdiger Graf von Starhemberg, the city's defender during the siege), the second contains a folding copperplate depicting the siege, the third is supplemented with a large folding copperplate depicting the Battle of Parkany in 1683. Fraktur typeface; two title pages feature a woodcut device, other pages are decorated with headpieces, tailpieces and initials. All copies are complete. /// Pasteboard boards with remnants of paper cover; hardback, [6]+72+[8], [8]+102+[2]+[2], [40], [32] pp., frontispiece, 2 folding plates, 8° (16 x 20 cm), boards worn, tanned and stained, front endpaper with old call numbers written with pen and coloured pencil, free endpapers missing, starting hinge, spine slightly cracked (text block still holds together), frontispiece worn, yellowed and almost detached, first plate slightly creased, with small tear, second plate slightly creased, with several tears on folds, most pages slightly tanned, ca 20 pages have minor water stains, some pages slightly worn along edges, title page with scribbles over ownership note, condition: fair Book Language/s: German.