Jurende’s Vaterländischer Pilger im Kaiserstaate Oesterreichs. Geschäfts- und Unterhaltungsbuch für alle Provinzen des österreichischen Gesammtreiches. 1826.
Large 4to. (28), a-q, LVI, a-h, 360, 48, (4) pp. Title-page and first section printed in red and black. With a folding lithographed plate. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped spine title (oxidized). All edges sprinkled.
€ 350.00
13th year. The Austrian popular writer K. J. Jurende (1780-1842) was a Pestalozzian educator before turning to writing in Brno. "He edited the calendar 'Mährischer Wanderer' ('Moravian Wanderer'), published since 1814 under the title 'Vaterländischer Pilger' ('National Pilgrim'), and the journal 'Moravia' (1815)" (cf. DBE).
Title-page has 12 crown revenue stamp. The plate shows various curious matters discussed within the calendar, including Klosterneuburg Abbey, the Outer Castle Gate and the "Spinnerin am Kreuz" monument in Vienna, Melk Abbey, but also Jakob Degen's flying machine, a Siberian mammoth skeleton, the cross section of a Dutch warship, the Great Sphinx of Giza, the Pont du Gard, etc.
Binding somewhat rubbed and bumped at extremeties. Rare; no copy in the Austrian National Library; this year recorded only in the Bavarian State Library in Munich and in the Salzburg University Library.
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