ALLGEMEINES HISTORISCHES TASCHENBUCH, ODER, ABRISS DER MERKWÜRDIGSTEN NEUEN WELT-BEGEBENHEITEN: ENTHALTEND FÜR 1784 DIE GESCHICHTE DER REVOLUTION VON NORD-AMERICA [GENERAL HISTORICAL POCKETBOOK, SUMMARIZING NOTEWORTHY WORLD NEWS OF 1784, WITH A HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION IN NORTH AMERICA.]
Berlin: Bey Haude und Spener, [1784]. Second Edition. 12mo., [8], 182, [2] pages; VG; bound in plain blue/gray paper wraps; housed in a custom ox-blood morocco card-deck style slipcase with lid; bookplate of Mark Dineley to front pastedown; Second edition, with the author's initials corrected on the title page and the date 1784 added to the bases of three plates.; finely engraved allegorical frontispiece; beautiful hand-tinted folding map of the North American colonies by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann based on earlier work by William Faden the Younger; 12 engraved plates by artist Daniel Chodowiecki, engraved by Daniel Berger, depicting events from the Revolutionary War bound in throughout; engraved plate by Berger depicting five Revolutionary War figures; a double-plate by Berger depicting both the Libertas Americana medal and the Continental Currency dollar; and three vividly hand-tinted plates depicting the American flag and pennant, Gen. Washington with a guard, and a sharpshooter and infantryman.; text in German; RF consignment; shelved case 3. More