Online Auction 31 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Part I
"The General History of the Prussian State", by Carl Friedrich Pauli – Halle, 1760-69 – Eight Volumes, Full Set – Engravings
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Allgemeine preussische Staats-Geschichte samt aller dazu gehörigen Königreichs, Churfürstenthums, Herzogthümer, Fürstenthümer, Graf- und Herrschaften aus bewährten Schriftstellern und Urkunden bis auf gegenwärtige Regierung [The General History of the Prussian State…], by Carl Friedrich Pauli. Halle, Germany: Christoph Peter Francken, 1760-69. Eight volumes (full set). German.
Composition by German historian Carl Friedrich Pauli (1723-1778), encompassing the history of the Prussian kingdom and the principalities it comprised from antiquity until Pauli's time. This long, eight-volume work was written and published in the days of King Frederick II ("the Great") of Prussia, a military leader and acclaimed statesman, also renowned as a patron of the arts.
In some of the chapters that deal with the Jews, Pauli goes into great detail and great length to describe various blood libels, including the one perpetrated against the Jews of the Margraviate (Principality) of the March of Brandenburg in 1510, following accusations that they had stolen and desecrated Sacramental bread from the church in the village of Knobloch. More than a hundred Jews were arrested and interrogated under severe torture over a period of four weeks; in the end, 36 of them were burned at the stake and the remaining members of the Jewish community were expelled from the country (see Vol. 2, pp. 452-62).
Most of the volumes feature a frontispiece engraving – a portrait of one of the Prussian kings or noblemen mentioned in the text (Frederick I, Frederick II, and others), decorated initials, and illustrations (portraits, family trees, and more.
Eight volumes. Vol. 1: [11] ff., 612, [10] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 2: [8] ff., 600, [10] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 3: [3] ff., 612, [16] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 4: [3] ff., 624, [12] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 5: [3] ff., 618, [14] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 6: [4] ff., 610, [9] pp. Vol. 7: [3] ff., 560 pp. + [2] pls. (one folded). Vol. 8: [3] ff., 592, [26] pp. + [1] pl.
Approx. 24 cm. Browning. Overall good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Notations on some leaves. Tears to edges of some leaves. Library stamps on front pastedowns. Matching bindings, with leather spines and corners. Abrasion and wear to edges of bindings and spines. Gilt impressed spines.
Composition by German historian Carl Friedrich Pauli (1723-1778), encompassing the history of the Prussian kingdom and the principalities it comprised from antiquity until Pauli's time. This long, eight-volume work was written and published in the days of King Frederick II ("the Great") of Prussia, a military leader and acclaimed statesman, also renowned as a patron of the arts.
In some of the chapters that deal with the Jews, Pauli goes into great detail and great length to describe various blood libels, including the one perpetrated against the Jews of the Margraviate (Principality) of the March of Brandenburg in 1510, following accusations that they had stolen and desecrated Sacramental bread from the church in the village of Knobloch. More than a hundred Jews were arrested and interrogated under severe torture over a period of four weeks; in the end, 36 of them were burned at the stake and the remaining members of the Jewish community were expelled from the country (see Vol. 2, pp. 452-62).
Most of the volumes feature a frontispiece engraving – a portrait of one of the Prussian kings or noblemen mentioned in the text (Frederick I, Frederick II, and others), decorated initials, and illustrations (portraits, family trees, and more.
Eight volumes. Vol. 1: [11] ff., 612, [10] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 2: [8] ff., 600, [10] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 3: [3] ff., 612, [16] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 4: [3] ff., 624, [12] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 5: [3] ff., 618, [14] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 6: [4] ff., 610, [9] pp. Vol. 7: [3] ff., 560 pp. + [2] pls. (one folded). Vol. 8: [3] ff., 592, [26] pp. + [1] pl.
Approx. 24 cm. Browning. Overall good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Notations on some leaves. Tears to edges of some leaves. Library stamps on front pastedowns. Matching bindings, with leather spines and corners. Abrasion and wear to edges of bindings and spines. Gilt impressed spines.
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