Hausgeschichte und Diplomatarium der Reichs - Semperfreien und Grafen Schaffgotsch [1925] [History of the Schaffgotsch family].

Leipzig (Leipzig) 1925. typesettingand printing Staatliche Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe. 29.5x21.5 cm, pp. 889, (7), coat of arms in etching on title page, 4 portraits [of Christoph, Hans Urlich, Christoph Leopold and Hans Anton Schaffgotsch], 4 genealogical plates, 2 fold-out color plates [gilt facsimile: family tree of descendants of Joannes Nepomucen Gotthard Schaffgotsch and perg. writings of Bishop Philip Gotard of Wrocław], hardcover, red half-leather, gilt superexlibris - Schaffgotsch coat of arms on the front, embossed and gilt titulature on the spine, top page edges gilt.Very good condition.

T. II: Besitzgeschichte, part 2 [the only one issued of the 4 proj. volumes]: Die Erhaltung der schaffgotschischen Stammgüter durch Fideicommisse, oprac. Johannes Kaufmann on behalf of Friedrich Reichs-Semperfrei und Graf Schaffgotsch von Kynast und Greiffenstein zu Bad Warmbrunn, published by Max Leipelt/Buchhandlung, Bad Warmbrunn [Cieplice] 1925.

Exceptionally impressive published history of the family of Silesian state lords, the Schaffgotsch counts, related to the Piasts of Brzeg and Legnica - from medieval protoplasts, arriving from Lusatia and Meissen, to the 1880s. - owners of Cieplice (now part of Jelenia Góra), Sobieszów, Kopice, Chojnik Castle, Przesieka, Wilcza and Szklarska Poreba, the Gryf key (including Siedlęcin and Świeradów).