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Augsburg > First German city guidebook for pupils.
"Prima Elementa Historiae
Urbis Augustae Vindelicorum in Colloquia Puerilia redacta et usui Classicum
Inferiorium Gymnasii Annali destinata." Augsburg by Melchior Lotter
1763. 3 ½ printed sheets (c46 x 36 cm) with 55 pages, size 8vo (c18 x 11,5 cm).
Text probably by Paul von Stetten the Younger (1731-1808).
With a city map of
Augsburg and its surroundings, copper engraving by M.A. Lotter, 17,2 x 32,8 cm.
An untrimmed copy of the first (and only) edition of a local city guidebook for
the pupils of the St. Anna Gymnasium in Augsburg. Each passage of the Latin
text is written in the form of a dialogue between two schoolboys, all ordered
alphabetically by the first names. The text tells us about the schools, streets,
bridges and churches of Augsburg, deals with politics, the economy, the weather
and the religions of the town and especially with the history of Augsburg. Very
good condition.
€ 1.650,-
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