Hereditas Antikvárium

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Norimbergae, 1723. P. C. Monath. (22)+204p.+2pl(s). (engravings, 1 folding)+1 folding map(s) With several engaved vignettes and initials.
The first, prehistoric part of the work discusses the history of the Scythians, Huns and Avars. The first study of the second part presents the history of the county of Szepes, followed by a treatise on Hungarian waters and spas. The author presents in detail the baths of Szklenó and Vihnye in Upper Hungary, and illustrates it with the view of the two baths as well as three large-scale copper engravings depicting the interior of Szklenó. He writes briefly about Hungarian mountains, forests, caves and ores, followed by a more extensive chapter about Hungarian wines, including the Sopron wine region, which is decorated with a large copper engraving depicting grapes. The work closes with short writings about the country's agriculture, clothing, and people, with a copper engraving representing a young Hungarian nobleman with the city of Pozsony in the background. The engravings are the works of Sámuel Mikoviny (the noble young man is assumed to be his self-portrait). One of the plates portrays a belladonna (or deadly nightshade), and the other shows a longitudinal view of the cave in Deménfalva in Liptó County (by Georg Buchholtz), with a detailed description of the cave. The work also contains the large, engraved map of Szepesség by Pál Kray, which is decorated with allegorical images. From a cartographic point of view, it is an essential map: the first Hungarian administrative map. Kray made it in manuscript in 1715, and after his death, it was engraved by Johann Georg Puschner on behalf of Bél.
Contemporary half vellum.
RMK III/XVIII 108., Fodor: 77-78. old.