222 - (Reinhard, J.J. or C.J. Kremer).

(Reinhard, J.J. or C.J. Kremer). A Pragmatic History of the House of Geroldsek and of Their Imperial Domains of Hohengeroldsek, Lahr, and Mahlberg in Swabia. With CCXIII documents, several engravings, and two registers. Frankfurt, Leipzig, no publisher, 1766. 4°. [4] leaves, 175, 472 pp., with 213 documents, 7 engraved coats of arms, and 2 folded genealogical tables. Contemporary calfskin binding with a gold-stamped spine label and rich floral gilding on the spine. ADB IX, 43. Holzmann-Bohatta II, 7032 (also mentions Christof Jakob Kremer as a possible author; cf. Jöcher-A. III, 857 and NDB XIII, 6). Lautenschlager 6630. NDB VI, 317. VD18 10528156. — First and only edition. - “The ancient House of G. (Hohengeroldseck), which exercised the bailiwick over the monasteries of Schuttern and Ettenheimmünster and founded the Augustinian monastery in Lahr in 1259, was the most powerful in the Ortenau region; its territory extending from the Rhine through the Black Forest to Swabia” (A. Kleinschmidt in ADB). - Spines and edges slightly rubbed; the rear blank endpaper is missing; slight brown staining in places; a very beautiful, decoratively bound copy.