[Europe] Vermehrter Curieuser Antiqvarius,

Das ist Allerhand auserlesene Geographische und Historische Merckwürdigkeiten so in denen Europaeischen Laendern zu finden; und aus Berühmter Männer Reisen zusammen getragen (..) P.L. berckenmeyer, Hamburg, Benjamin Schillers Wittwe, Johann Christoph Kissner, 1720. Bound together with: Fortsetzung des Curieusen Antiquarii (..) so in Asia, Africa und America zu finden (..) Hamburg, Benjamin Schillers Erben [n.d.]

Overlapping parchment, 12mo, (16),(76),936,(8),(42),418 pp., edges gilt, 2 frontispieces, 2 titles in red and black, complete with 30 copperplates. Initials + year on front cover, binding and inside sm. traces of use and sm. inkblots. Extensive collection of facts collected by the Hamburg theologian Paul Ludolf Berckenmeyer concerning early 18th century Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The copperplates depict among other things water works in the river Seine, caves in Maastricht, herring fishery, elephant hunting, etc.