Windisch, Karl Gottlieb von [HUNGARY]Biblio.com
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1784SZEPEBKS003915IPressburg Pozsony: Anton Lowe 1784. Hardcover. Good/not applicable. Title continues: . Geschichtschreibern und glabwurdigen Handschriften zusammengetragen. - Large 12mo. - xvi56848 pp. - Contemporary full polished calf; spine with 5 raised bands and extensive gilt floral decorations title in gilt on leather label. Marbled floral endpapers in red and blue. Engraved title-page vignette and some engraved tail-pieces. - Both binding and interior very fine. - Neue vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. - Windisch 1725-1793 was Mayor of Pressburg. <br/> <br/> Anton Lowe hardcover
176155398Vienna: Typis Georgii Ludovici Schulzii Typographi Academici 1761. Folio. 14 388 22 pp. Copper-engraved title vignette 3 copper-engraved maps in text 1 large folding copper-engraved map woodcut engraved decorated & historiated initials & tail-pieces. Contemporary mottled boards rebacked in brown calf minor bumping & wear to corners some scuffing & edgewear ex-lib markings on title w/ “Dupl.†annotation at foot of title†still a VG clean copy with wide margins and w/ ownership markings on front pastedown of Leo Szemere pseud. Peter Bolt and noted Austro-Hungarian bookplate collector dated 1920. First edition of this significant early history offering a broad comparative analysis of the movements and impact of the Huns Avars Sarmatians and other nomadic peoples across Asia Central Asia and into Europe from 210 A.D. to 997. Bolstered not only with many original documents from late antiquity and maps but also drawing upon the influential histories and researches of the French Orientalists such as Joseph de Guignes massive history of Central Asia drawing upon Chinese historical sources. The well-executed large folding map shows the Hun Empire stretching from northern China above the Great Wall northern Tibet and across the steppes of Central Asia into Central Europe. Pray 1723-1801 was an Hungarian Jesuit historian who was the imperial historiographer of Empress Maria Theresa whose collection of more than 2100 volumes manuscripts and documents was donated to the Empire and was rewarded by Emperor Joseph II with an allowance of 400 florins for supporting Hungary’s claims to lands lost to the Ottoman Empire. See: Graesse V 435; Wurzbach XXIII 225; Gabor Klniczay The Myth of Scythian Origin and the Cult of Attila in the Nineteenth Century Multiple Modernities: Ancient Histories in Nineteenth Century Cultures 2011 pp. 195-197. Typis Georgii Ludovici Schulzii, Typographi Academici, hardcover