ROSTGAARD, JENS.

Dend Kongelige Residents og Stabel-Stad Kiøbenhavns historiske Beskrivelse.

Kiøbenhavn, 1729.

8vo. In later marbled paper covered boards with red leather title-label to front board. Missing lower part of spine. Ex-libris (H. I. Andersens Bibliotek, James Løve and C. Bricka) to front end-papers. Title-page page repairs and reinforced on verso, no loss of text. First leafs with small worm-tract, with loss of a few letters. (2), 65 pp.

Exceedingly rare first edition of Rostgaard's topographical description of the Copenhagen, constituting one of the most  important sources to early 18th-century Copenhagen and ranks among the foundational historical accounts of the city.

From the collection of H. I. Andersen.

Order-nr.: 63149