Curiosorum, nec non politicorum vagabundi per Europam, vulgo sic dicti, Rationis-Status, de praesenti tempore nugae-somniorum. Classis primae, pars tertia ... = das ist, Der ersten Classen, dritter Theil, des in der Europäischen Welt überall zu Hause sich einsindenden, sogenannten Ratio-Status, wegen jetziger Zeit Läufften nachdencklicher, und Politisch-träumender Schwätz-Gesichter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cless, Andreas, active 1675-1680.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Europe--History--1648-1715--Early works to 1800.

Europe.

History.

Dutch War, 1672-1678--Early works to 1800.

Dutch War, 1672-1678.

Scanian War, 1675-1679--Early works to 1800.

Scanian War, 1675-1679.

Genre:

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Dallett, Joseph B. (donor)

Pichelsdorf und Altenburg, Johann Georg, Freiherr von (armorial binding)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 100, that is, 98 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Ersten Classen, dritter Theil, des in der Europäischen Welt überall zu Hause sich einsindenden, sogenannten Ratio-Status, wegen jetziger Zeit Läufften nachdencklicher, und Politisch-träumender Schwätz-Gesichter

Fingerprint:

t.in n-en n?s- chve (3) 1678 (A)

Place of Publication:

Falso-Veronae [that is, Nuremberg?] : [publisher not identified], An. 1678.

Notes:

"'Schwätz-Gesichter' are visions which Ratio Status has in his dream; they are concerned with war, soldiers, France and its ambition for the Emperor's crown, Alsace and Lorraine, etc. Ratio Status has three faces."--C. von Faber du Faur, German Baroque literature (New Haven: Yale UP, 1969), no. 778a.

Attributed to Andreas Cless. Cf. VD 17.

"Editio nunc variis figuris aeneis, rebus insuper ubi[que] illustrata, prior longè correctior ... Ittzo von neuem wohl übersehen, und nicht allein wegen der Materie, als auch mit schönen Kupffern herrlich vermehret und erweitert."

Signatures: A-M⁴ N².

Engraved illustrations (plates).

Woodcut tail-pieces.

Typographical ornaments.

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Cless, Andreas. Curiosorum, nec non politicorum vagabundi per Europam, vulgo sic dicti, Rationis-Status, de praesenti tempore nugae-somniorum. Classis prioris, pars prima ... Nurnberg : In Verlegung Leonhard Loschge Buchhändlern, Im Iahr 1678.

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Joseph B. Dallett.

Penn Libraries copy in contemporary armorial binding of Johann Georg, Freiherr von Pichelsdorf und Altenburg (d. 1738): full mottled calf with arms of "Ioannes Georgivs Liber Baro[...] Pichelstorff et Altenbvrg" stamped in gold on upper and lower board; 4 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; faded leather spine label with brief title ("Europ: Ratio. Status. I.II.III.IV. TH") stamped in blind(?); paper label with ms. shelf-mark at foot of spine; blind-tooled(?) cover edges; all edges stippled red and blue.

Penn Libraries copy has a few wormholes in tail portion of boards, pastedowns, endpapers, and a few leaves at beginning and end of volume.

Cited in:

VD 17 23:299912A

OCLC:

745567128