GOLDBECK Jan Frederick, Vollständige Topographie des Königreichs Preussen.

Vollständige Topographie des Königreichs Preussen.

Erster Theil, welcher die Tophographie von Ost-Preussen enthält. Zweiter Theil, welcher die Tophographie von WestOst-Preussen enthält. (2 vols.) Herausgegeben von .... T. 1: Königsberg und Leipzig b.r. T. 2: Marienwerder 1789. (25.5 x 22 cm), f. [4], pp. 66, 214; f. [1], p. 197; IX, [1], 133, [1]; 295, [1], p. p. of period.
(Estr. T. 17). Stamps, lower corner of last page clipped. Abrasions and stains of the binding. Spines richly decorated and gilt, two signboards with gilt lettering. On the boards of both volumes copperplate "Ex libris "C.B.Lengnichi", signed "Geyer". Gdañsker Karol Benjamin Lengnich (1743-1795), scholar and clergyman, owner of a rich collection of Polish coins, expert on old prints, compiled a list of works by Gottfried Lengnich, published works on Jan Hevelius. The work on offer is the most important work of the Königsberg-based German geographer and Protestant theologian Jan Friedrich Goldbeck (1748 - 1812). This work is "Complete Topography of the Kingdom of Prussia", which consists of two parts. The first covers all the admin. districts, towns and counties of East Prussia, while the second covers West Prussia. Estreicher gives a cursory and erroneous description of the work. Rare. 1275.