122 - Löhneysen, G.E.v.

Löhneysen, G.E.v. The Art of Court, State, and Government. Consisting of three books, the first of which deals with the education and instruction of young gentlemen, ... the second with the office, virtues, and qualities of ruling princes, as well as the appointment of their councils, officers, and servants. The third deals with various councils / which a prince ... must have in his realm; concerning religion, police, justice, the treasury, mining, and military affairs. Now carefully revised / and expanded in some places. 3 parts in 1 volume. Frankfurt am Main (and Leipzig), Henning Grosse 1679. Folio (34 x 22 cm.). [24] leaves, 777 (recte 775) pp., [14] leaves (the last one blank) with 7 engraved portraits by W(olfgang) P. Kilian and 16 copper engravings on 8 fold-out plates. Contemporary leather binding. ADB XIX, 134 f. Graesse IV, 246. Humpert 45. Seebaß/Engelmann III, 622 (excluding the plates). VD17 23:270876U. Not listed in Kress and Goldsmith. - Second edition of the cameralistic magnum opus by the mining captain, writer, and publisher G. E. von Löhneysen (1552–1622), first published privately in 1622 under the title "Aulica Politica." - "In addition to the treatises on education, what is said about dress codes, forestry and woodland management, general economics, crime and its punishment, mining and metallurgy (very detailed!), coinage, military affairs, and other topics is particularly noteworthy. This work, first published in 1622–1624 under the title 'Aulico-politica,' was edited in this second edition by the Saxon princely councilor Johann Andreas Gerhard" (A. Seebaß). - "His principal work on cameralistics, specifically on the art of court, state, and government, stands far above the mass of contemporary theoreticalpolitical works of literature and directly prepares the ground for the period of the first heyday of German cameralistics inaugurated by Seckendorff’s *Teutscher Fürstenstaat*” (ADB). - With portraits of the Saxon princes and 16 copper engravings on mining. - Binding somewhat rubbed, joints at the head and foot slightly torn; bookplate ("Leipziger Stadtbibliothek") and 3 stamps on the verso of the title page overstamped "Getilgt Universitäts Bibliothek Leipzig," "Invalid," and "Duplicate"; title page has an old tear in the lower margin, otherwise in very good condition.