Sale: 366 / Rare Books including Marine Art, May 17./18. 2010 in Hamburg Lot 29

 
Gottfried Wegner - Rattis (1699)


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Gottfried Wegner
Rattis (1699)
Estimate:
€ 400 / $ 432
Sold:
€ 744 / $ 803

(incl. surcharge)
Wegner, G., Tractatus curiosus historico-physicus, de rattis, damnoso truculentoque inter mures populo, quo Neostadim Eberswaldense, in Mesomarchia Brandenburgica oppidum, initio hujus seculi, mirabili ratione, liberatum est .. With large woodcut initial on black prime. Danzig, Joh. Z. Stolle 1699. Early 20th century cloth with gilt lettering. 4to. 111 pp.Agassiz IV, 542. - VD 17 12:136678K. - First edition. - Extremely rare tractate on rat infestation from a historic-cultural perspective, particularly using the example of Eberswalde, which was experiencing rat infestation in the early 17th century and which was, according to the legend, miraculously saved from the plague by an unknown ratter. -The Lutheran theologian Gottfried Wegner (1644-1709) was archdeacon in Eberswalde, deacon in Frankfurt an der Oder, later professor of theology in Königsberg (cf. ADB XLI, 427). - Fine copy. Ex-libris.



29
Gottfried Wegner
Rattis (1699)
Estimate:
€ 400 / $ 432
Sold:
€ 744 / $ 803

(incl. surcharge)