Jakob Friedrich Freiherr von BIELFELD
Progrès des Allemands dans les sciences, les belles-lettres et les arts particulierement dans la poesie et l'eloquence["Progress of the Germans in the Sciences, Belles-Lettres, and the Arts, particularly in Poetry and Eloquence"]
Sans nom d'éditeur|Breslau [Wrocław] 1752|9.7 x 17 cm|Relié
Extremely rare first edition, probably printed in Prussia, of this essay written directly in French by Baron de Bielfeld (1716–1770), inspector of Prussian universities and a friend of Frederick the Great since the time when he was still Crown Prince of Prussia.
GV 1700–1910, vol. 111, p. 374. Not in Conlon (who only cites the Amsterdam edition of the same year). No copy located in the U.S.A.
Full red morocco with gilt decoration, smooth spine elaborately tooled in the grotesque style, gilt rolls on the caps, triple gilt fillet border on the covers, gilt fillets on the edges, star-patterned gilt paper endpapers and doublures, gilt dentelle border on the inside covers, all edge
€4,500