Sale: 359 / Rare Books including Marine Art, Nov. 16./17. 2009 in Hamburg Lot 33

August d. Jüngere - Novis aeterni solis. 1666.


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August d. Jüngere
Novis aeterni solis. 1666.
Estimate:
€ 1,000 / $ 1,070
Sold:
€ 1,920 / $ 2,054
(incl. surcharge)
August d. J. - Selene Guelphica, novis aeterni solis radiis nitidius illustris, & sublunaria sua constante lumine fovens ac vegetans ... Domino Augusto, duce Brunovicensium & Lunaeburgensium ... die X. Aprilis, Anni MDCLXVI natalem suum duodenonagesimum prospere exortum, &, sedatis vicini belli motibus, pace Belgo-Monasteriensi ... With 4 doublepage, respectively folded copperplates. Wolfenbüttel, [H.] Stern 1666. Later boards with label on spine and gilt edges. 4to. 62 non numb. ll.
VD 17, 23:305653Y. - Not in the baroque bibliographies. - Unique edition of this extremely rare collection of festivity poems on behalf of the 88th (and last) birthday of Aufgust the Younger, duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and founder of the Wolfenbüttel library, named after him. The nice coppers depicting a symbolic, mysterious orbit of the moon, musical notes and cryptographic diagrams, which were a special gift, as August was an expert in cryptography. He published his work about cryptographs under the pseudonym Gustavus Selenus in 1624. Contributions by S. von Birken, H. Meibom, J. G. Schottelius, Herzogin Sophie Elisabeth, Herzog Rudolf-August, Herzog Anton Ulrich and many more. - Partly somewhat browned, 1 l. detached, title with erased stamp. edges rubbed. All in all well-preserved copy.



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August d. Jüngere
Novis aeterni solis. 1666.
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