Carolus Ludovicus Tolnerus [Carl Ludwig Tolner] – Historia Palatina, Seu Primorum & Antiquissimorum Comitum Palatinorum Ad Rhenum Res Gestae Eorumque – 1700-1709

Historia Palatina, Seu Primorum & Antiquissimorum Comitum Palatinorum Ad Rhenum Res Gestae Eorumque In Palatinatu Rhenano Vera & Indubitata Successio / Additiones ad Historiam Palatinam: Quibus simul etiam ad objectiones clarissimi cujusdam viri, lib. jurisprud. jur. publ. respondetur studio. 3 volumes in one - Carolus Ludovicus Tolnerus [Carl Ludwig Tolner]Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfurt am Main]: Sumptibus Friderici Knochii, 1700 / Heidelbergae [Heidelberg]: Typis, Johannis Mayeri, 1709. 2 volumes in one. [10], 418, 180, [38]; [6], 155, [3] pages. 33.5cm x 20.5cm. Full leather binding with gilt decorated and lettered spine with six raised bands, and marbled endpapers. First edition of "Historia Palatina", a major historical and genealogical work focused on the Counts Palatine of the Rhine. It details the deeds and succession of the early Palatine rulers. It is particularly valued by historians for its Codex Diplomaticus Palatinus, an appendix containing primary source documents and charters. It is bound together with “Additiones ad Historiam Palatinam”, a specific polemical and evidentiary supplement written by Tolner to defend his original 1700 work against academic and political critics. Comes with an engraved frontispiece, three engraved title vignettes, 16 fold-out genealogical tables (5 are engraved copperplates), 1 plate with copperplate engraving, 2 in-text engravings,... lees verder bij Catawiki