46. "Observaţii istorice, naturale şi politice asupra Valahiei şi Moldovei" ("Historical, Natural and Political Observations on Wallachia and Moldavia"), by Stephan Ignaz Raicevich, German, Vienna, 1789, with ex-libris Alexandru Papiu-Ilarian, special piece

Selling price

EUR 960

Session

Wed, 5 July 2023 19:00

Ignaz Stephan Raicevich (1739-1792), Italian physician, scholar and diplomat, an Austrian subject, published in German in Vienna this remarkable work containing a wealth of historical, economic, political and social information about the Romanians of the Principality in the 18th Century. He was both a private teacher to the sultan prince of the Phanariot ruler Alexander Ipsilanti and consul of the Habsburg Empire in Bucharest between 1782 and 1786. The copy includes the ex-libris of the historian Alexandru Papiu-Ilarian and that of the Romanian Mining Society of Bucharest and is bound in a leather bibliophilic binding.

Dimensions

width 11.5 cm, height 17.5 cm, custom 17,5 × 11,5 cm

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