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DRESDEN 1678 -- TZSCHIMMERN, Gabriel. Die Durchlauchtigste Zusammenkunfft Oder: Historische Erzehlung Was Der Durchlauchtigste Fürst und Herr Herr Johann George der Ander Herzog zu Sachsen... Bey Anwesenheit Seiner Churfürstlichen Durchlauchtigkeit Hochgeehrtesten Herren Gebrüdere dero Gemahlinnen Prinzen und Princessinnen zu sonderbahren Ehren und Belustigung in Dero Residenz und Haubt-Vestung Dresden im Monat Februario, des M.DC.LXXVIIIsten Jahres An allerhand Aufzügen Ritterlichen Exercitien, Schau-Spielen Schiessen Jagten Operen, Comoedien, Balleten, Masqueraden, Königreiche Feuerwercke und andern Denkwürdiges aufführen und vorstellen lassen. - Kurtze Erläuterungen über Die in dem vorhergehenden Wercke gehaltene Aufzüge. Nuremberg: Johann Hoffmann, 1680.
2 parts in one volume. 2o (327 x 212 mm). Engraved title, 3 (of 4) engraved portraits, 44 (of 45) engraved plates (28 folding, the largest printed from 9 plates and joined together) by PHILIP KILIAN, J.O. HARMS, J. AZELT, G.J. SCHNEIDER, P. TROSCHEL and others. (Lacks one portrait, and plate 19, a few plates torn along folds.) Contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasps. Provenance: Princes of Liechtenstein (bookplate); purchased from H.P. Kraus 1953.
JOHANN GEORG II (1613-1680), Elector of Saxony, festivities for of the Saxon princes family and retinue in Dresden, 1678 are commemorated in one of the most splendid of the Baroque festival books. Knightly exercises, hunts, processions, dramas, operas, ballets, masquerades, fireworks, and other pageantry were staged in this month-long celebration and are described and illustrated in magnificent folding plates. The elector's primary interests in music and art is well reflected in this volume. Dresden, became the musical center of Germany during his reign. Berlin 2862; Jantz 2544; Lipperheide Sbe 9; Vinet 735; Watanabe 283.
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JOHANN GEORG II (1613-1680), Elector of Saxony, festivities for of the Saxon princes family and retinue in Dresden, 1678 are commemorated in one of the most splendid of the Baroque festival books. Knightly exercises, hunts, processions, dramas, operas, ballets, masquerades, fireworks, and other pageantry were staged in this month-long celebration and are described and illustrated in magnificent folding plates. The elector's primary interests in music and art is well reflected in this volume. Dresden, became the musical center of Germany during his reign. Berlin 2862; Jantz 2544; Lipperheide Sbe 9; Vinet 735; Watanabe 283.