Willigerod, Johann Heinrich Zacharias

Histoire de Münden

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[Caspar, in Münden for] M. Dieterich et chez l'Auteur Göttingen 1808 First Edition principalement par rapport au commerce et à la navigation. 8vo. [173 x 102 x 42 mm]. [5]ff, xx, [ii], 570, [2] pp. Bound in contemporary red goatskin, the covers with a border on onlaid green goatskin tooled in gilt with a flower and lozenge roll and flanked by a chain roll. Smooth spine divided into six panels by strips of onlaid green goatskin tooled in gilt with a roll of roundels, lettered in the second panel on a green goatskin label, the first and fifth panels tooled with a repeated flower and block roll, the third with a repeated lozenge roll and the fourth and sixth with a repeated "Greek-key" roll, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt star and hatched roll, light green glazed paper endleaves, gilt edges. The title-page and four page dedication to Jêrome Napoleon are in French and the rest of the text in German. The German title was not bound into this copy. The paper has a blue tinge. It is a fine copy in a most attractive binding, with an extravagently decorated spine. A history of the trades, crafts and shipping industries of the town of Münden, near Hanover, at the confluence of the Werra and Fulda. The town was founded by the Thuringian landgraves, and came to the house of Brunswick in 1247. Until the 16th century it served as a part time residence to the Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg and it was destroyed by Tilly in 1626. The author, Johann Willigerod (b.1715), was a great admirer of Napoleon and hoped that Britain with her "despotism of the seas" would become a victim of her blockade policy and that free trade would be re-established. Jêrome Napoleon became King of Westphalia in 1807.

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