Cernitius, Johannes Decem e Familia Burggraviorum... Lot n° 20

Cernitius, Johannes Decem e Familia Burggraviorum Nurnbergensium Electorum Brandenburgicorum Eicones, ad vivum expressae, Eorumque Res Gestae, una Cum Genealogiis. With heraldic title border, 12 engraved portraits, an engraved family tree plate and woodcut book decoration. Berlin, Rungius, 1625. 4 vols. 110 p., 1 leaf. 4°. Pgt. d. Zt. (heavily stained and slightly bent). VD17 23:233218N. - First edition. One of several print variants (VD17 lists 5). Our copy with the engraver's annotation on the title, but without location. With the printer's mark on the title: "Berlini, Typis Rungianis. Anno: 1626. exemplaria prostant Wittebergae apud Haeredes Samuelis Selfisch." In the colophon: "Berlini, Iussu Serenissimi Electoris Brandenburgici: Sumtibus & Impensis Authoris: Excudebat Georgius Rungius, Typographus, Anno M.DC.XXV." - Lipperheide 709. Jöcher I, 1812 (edition 1628). - The portrait series with the Brandenburg Electors from Frederick I to the Great Elector, who is depicted as a child. The title framed by a border of the coats of arms of Brandenburg towns. - The endpapers with the collector's stamps of Heinrich Schmitz, Duisburg and Rudolf Leistner, Dortmund. - Browned and somewhat stained in places. Occasional minimal waterstaining. First leaf of text with professionally restored loss in white margin. P. 29 with tear in text. Well preserved. With heraldic title border, 12 engraved portraits, an engraved genealogical plate and woodcut book decoration. Cont. vellum (heavily stained and slightly bent). - First edition. One of several printed variants (VD17 lists 5). Our copy with the engraver's annotation on the title, but without location. - The portrait series with the Brandenburg Electors from Frederick I to the Great Elector, who is depicted as a child. The title framed by a border of the coats of arms of Brandenburg towns. - The endpapers with the collector's stamps of Heinrich Schmitz, Duisburg and Rudolf Leistner, Dortmund. - Browned and somewhat stained in places. Minimal waterstaining in places. First text leaf with professionally restored loss in white margin. p. 29 with tear. Overall well preserved.