Rare book on Bohemia and mining: Martin Zeiller; Topographia Bohemiae Moraviae et Silesiae, das ist, Beschreibung und eigentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten und bekandtisten Stätte und Plätze in dem Königreich Boheim..1650.
Item Number: Book 788c
Zeiller, Martin; Topographia Bohemiae Moraviae et Silesiae, das ist, Beschreibung und eigentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten und bekandtisten Stätte und Plätze in dem Königreich Boheim und einverlebten Landern, Mähren und Schlesien an Tag gegeben unndt verlegt durch Matthaeum Merian ... Franckfurt, Matthaeus Merian, 1650. Small folio, pp 192, 16, 74 engraved plates, maps, plans.
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This rare work is complete and in the original vellum covered boards. The binding is tight and clean with light wear to boards and small archival repair to spine at upper margin, penned titles. Owners book plate on paste down, the text, plates and maps are exceptionally clean and bright. The book is cased in a cloth covered archival box. In exceptionally good condition.
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Martin Zeiller (1589-1661 ) was a German Protestant author of the Baroque period and studied in history and law and after 1629 worked in various capacities in school systems in Ulm. He wrote extensively on the history of Germania and Bohemiae. One of his best known works was “Topographia Bohemiae” published in 1650. The work is a description of the topography of Bohemia, Moravia and Sileisia, with descriptions of the major cities and towns and also contains one of the earliest descriptions of the mineral resources, minerals and mines of the region. The work is very rare.
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