[War of Holland-Treaty of Nijmegen] DIARIUM EUROPÆUM. Diarii - Lot 43

[War of Holland-Treaty of Nijmegen] DIARIUM EUROPÆUM. Diarii Europæi continuatio XXXVII. Insertis variis actis publicis. Frankfurt, Wilhelm Serling, 1679. Small in-4° of [2], 528 pp. ; 636, [20] pp. 4 copper engravings out of text of which two folding, one signed SCHMUCK, representing various strongholds. Covered ivory vellum, blond calf title page, visible seams (contemporary binding). Thirty-eighth part of the immense Journal de l'Europe collection, the sum total of all European events gathered day by day since 1659. Devoted entirely to the Dutch War and the Peace of Nijmegen between France on the one hand, and the alliance of the United Provinces, Spain and the Empire on the other, this part also includes the Appendices, which give the original texts of all the treaties signed between 1678 and 1679 at Nijmegen, or derived from the Peace of Nijmegen. The Peace of Nijmegen (which gave France the Franche-Comté region) marked the high point of Louis XIV's reign. The Diarium Europæum, a newspaper of European scope, is considered the forerunner of the modern news paper. Born in 1659, it bore the self-explanatory name Täglicher Geschichts-Erzehlungen ("Daily Historical Reports"). Written in German, it is printed printed in Gothic type, with Latin words in Roman. official texts, including treaties, are in French (such as the Nijmegen treaty pp. 585-592). The Diarium europæum died out in 1683. It was followed by the Mercure européen (Europäische Mercurius) in 1690, twelve years before the first "national of the first "national" daily newspaper in 1702 (the London Daily courant). (In 1631, Renaudot's Gazette was weekly). From the library of the Counts of STOLBERG, with armorial bookplate engraved (1721) and cachet, one of the oldest German noble families, here here Count Christian-Ernest de STOLBERG WERNIGERODE (1691-1771) German aristocrat and politician, A fine copy bound in contemporary vellum. Text browned in places.