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Baroque literature - Lanckisch, Michael von. Newly-polished Mahl-Schatz. That is: A detailed and useful consideration of the meal treasure, which engaged persons are accustomed to offer each other before or after the betrothal ... In the same form as the ancient Gentiles: nowadays, apart from the Christians, foreign nations perform their weddings. With engraved frontispiece. Frankfurt and Leipzig, A. Zeidler for J. J. Erythropel, 1697. 4 p., 795 p., 8 p. 21 x 17 cm. Contemporary leather binding with gilt-stamped spine title and gilt spine (bumped and with scuff marks, upper spine defective). Second edition, first published in Bautzen in 1661. - VD17 12:105575S (3 copies, 2 of which without frontispiece) - Hayn-Gotendorf V, 58 - see Jantz I, 1573 (first edition). - Extensive compilation of wedding customs with interspersed poems and songs. About the origin of the wedding treasure, the maiden bride's treasure as rosebush, beehive, grape, dove; wedding of the old pagans, exotic wedding customs, about the wedding offer, wedding ring, golden necklace and bracelets, show penny, bridal wreath and bridal belt, hand and bridal shoes, hanky etc. - Frontispiece and title loose, old ownership note on the latter, small worm marks in the wide margins in places, longer ones on about 5 sheets, clean copy. VAT: *
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Baroque literature - Lanckisch, Michael von. Newly-polished Mahl-Schatz. That is: A detailed and useful consideration of the meal treasure, which engaged persons are accustomed to offer each other before or after the betrothal ... In the same form as the ancient Gentiles: nowadays, apart from the Christians, foreign nations perform their weddings. With engraved frontispiece. Frankfurt and Leipzig, A. Zeidler for J. J. Erythropel, 1697. 4 p., 795 p., 8 p. 21 x 17 cm. Contemporary leather binding with gilt-stamped spine title and gilt spine (bumped and with scuff marks, upper spine defective). Second edition, first published in Bautzen in 1661. - VD17 12:105575S (3 copies, 2 of which without frontispiece) - Hayn-Gotendorf V, 58 - see Jantz I, 1573 (first edition). - Extensive compilation of wedding customs with interspersed poems and songs. About the origin of the wedding treasure, the maiden bride's treasure as rosebush, beehive, grape, dove; wedding of the old pagans, exotic wedding customs, about the wedding offer, wedding ring, golden necklace and bracelets, show penny, bridal wreath and bridal belt, hand and bridal shoes, hanky etc. - Frontispiece and title loose, old ownership note on the latter, small worm marks in the wide margins in places, longer ones on about 5 sheets, clean copy. VAT: *
