BEGRAVNINGSPLANSCHEN / LARGE PANORAMIC VIEW OF STOCKHOLM, PUFENDORF, 1696.

PUFENDORF, SAMUEL VON. Engraved plate with the folding panoramic view of Stockholm depicting the funeral ceremonies of Charles X Gustav. Nürnberg 1696. The large engraved funeral plate on 13 sheets here joined together and folded. About 285x4470 mm. Some browning from tape mendings at the right side with small tear, one fold repaired in the middle with some browning. The engraving is rolled and in modern (20th c.) cardboard tube. The funeral was held on November 3 in 1660. After Erik Dahlberg, engraver known, probably French or German. Probably from the Latin edition of Samuel Pufendorf's "De Rebus a Carolo Gustavo" published in 1696. A German edition was published in 1697. The writing of this official history of the Swedish wars with Poland and Denmark from 1655 to 1660 was entrusted by king Charles XI to Samuel Pufendorf, a German historian and expert on international law, who held the first chair of history at the new university of Lund (1668-1676) and was the official Historiographer of the Realm from 1676 until 1689. (Sten G. Lindberg: Swedish Books 1280-1967.)

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285 × 4470 mm