Nuremberg, Beschreibung und Vorstellung des Solennen Stuck-Schiessens, Nuremberg, 1734, boards

NUREMBERG

Beschreibung und Vorstellung des Solennen Stuck-Schiessens... Nuremberg: Lorenz Bieling for Georg Daniel Heumann and Johann Georg Hofmann, 1734

folio (481 x 353mm.), 14 double-page engraved plates, contemporary patterned paper boards with later calf spine, one plate frayed at edges, extremities slightly rubbed

A record of the cannon firing event in Nuremberg on 8 June 1733, with plates depicting parades of soldiers and cannons through the town and a view of the shooting contest.

LITERATURE:

Lipperheide 2219; VD18 14703068

PROVENANCE:

Thomas Francis Fremantle, armorial bookplate, purchased from Pickering & Chatto, 12 June 1901, £2-2s