Ferenz Nádasdy:

Mausoleum potentissimorum ac gloriosissimorum Regni Apostolici regum & primorum militantis Ungariae ducum.

Nürnberg, M. & J. F. Endter, 1664. Folio. 29 x 19 cms. [6] + 412 pp. + engraved title (laid down). With 59 full page engraved plates of Hungarian monarchs.

Later half vellum, worn, initial leaves partly loose, title somewhat soiled, old inscriptions, endleaves and contents partly worn with some finger-soiling, a few tears, portrait on p. 72 with small hole in image.

VD 17, 23:232430W.

First edition of this work on the Hungarian monarchy with a series of fifty-nine full-length heraldic portraits of kings and nobles of Hungary, sometimes with detailed views in the background of battles, landscapes, or cities. In this book, which is dedicated to the Hungarian nobility, Count de Nádasdy promoted the idea of an independent Hungarian monarchy.

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