Author: ECCARDUS Ioh. Georgius - Johann Georg Eccard :
Title: De origine Germanorum eorumque vetustissimis coloniis, migrationibus ac rebus gestis, libri duo.
Description: .: 16. Goettingae (Göttingen), sumptibius Ioh. Guil. Schmidii, 1750, lg in-8°, 22.5 x 18 cm, xxxxviii + (2) + 448 pp, 21 folding pl. h/t, contemporary blind boards, worn paper spine, (plate 18 with a tear), red edges. The editor was Christianus Ludovicus Scheidius, who also drew the plates ("N. Scelander fec."); Christian Ludwig Scheidt, 1709-1661, lawyer, librarian, archivist. The author was Johann Georg Eccard, a collaborator of Leibnitz, whom he succeeded as a historian. The plates show Stonehenge-like monuments, dolmens, graves, processions, artefacts, runes, ... (See Ebert 6556). .

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