De La Monarchie Prussienne, Sous Frédéric Le Grand; Avec Un Appendice Contenant des Recherches sur la situation actuelle des principales Contrées de l'Allemagne.

Beschreibung

7 Volumes of text in 8, in 8vo. plus folio atlas. with half-titles. engraved frontis. portrait & 1 other engraving in text volumes. atlas containing 10 double-page engraved maps, 93 engraved plates (some folding), & 60 tables (some folding). text volumes bound in 19th century quarter sheep (spines defective, one cover detached, several joints cracked, internally very good except for some faint embrowning). the atlas uncut in original bds. (spine wanting, covers worn, some dampstaining to plates & tables). First Octavo Edition of the text (also published in quarto format). An exhaustive work, published following Mirabeau's secret mission to the court of Prussia at Berlin in 1786, dealing with geography, population, agriculture, natural resources, manufactures, commerce, revenues and expenses, military affairs, religion, &c. Mirabeau was assisted in its compilation by Jakob Mauvillon and J.Thibault de Laveau. The numerous statistical tables are separately bound in the atlas volume together with ninety-three engraved military diagrams, and ten double-page engraved maps by Edme Mentelle. An extensive bibliography of eighty-nine works is given in Volume I. Kress B1448-49. Cioranescu 45224.

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Titel

De La Monarchie Prussienne, Sous Frédéric Le Grand; Avec Un Appendice Contenant des Recherches sur la situation actuelle des principales Contrées de l'Allemagne.

Verlag

London: 1788.

Erscheinungsjahr

1788

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

1st Edition

Zustand

Fair

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• Europe