Die Gottesdienstlichen Alterthuemer Der Obotriten Aus Dem Tempel Zu Rhetra Am Tollenzer-See

Published by Carl Friedrich Rellstab, Berlin, Germany, 1771

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leather spine w/ marble, paper wrapper. opening 39 pgs; 151 pgs w/ 52 bw plates; 3 fold-outs, 1 fold-out map. text in German. Text block and pages firm.Plate/Figure 41 has tear to one fold-line; Plate/Figure 30 has crease to lower edge. There is an opening four page section of English. First two pages are entitled "Extract Of A Letter From The Re. Mr. Masch, aulic Preacher, Consistorial Counsellor, and Superintendant Of Strelitz To Dr. Nugent, Of Gray's-Inn, London. Read At The Society Of Antquaries, Nov. 22, 1770" followed by two pages of a listing of deities. In the late 17th Century the Prillwitz idols were found in the village of Prillwitz, situated on Lake Tollenz and near the location of Rhetra, where a Slavonic temple had once been built. In 1771, Andreas Gottlieb Masch, chaplain of the Duke of Mecklenburg, published his findings over the idols. Scholars and archaeologists debated their authenticity until 1885 when historian Dr. F. Lisch claimed them to be counterfeit and the work of the Sponholz brothers who created them in their workshop. A rare copy with WorldCat listing 4 holdings. Good (no boards. ex-libris w/ embossed stamp to title pg & stamp to pgs 75/76; pages free of notations/defacement other than year written on title pg & ink marks to lower corners of english section. back wrapper detached; no cover wrapper. leather spine rubbed w/ 3 sections of leather remaining. title pg has diagonal tear to edges; tear to spine edg. foxing throughout, text and plates very readable.).…

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Title
Die Gottesdienstlichen Alterthuemer Der Obotriten Aus Dem Tempel Zu Rhetra Am Tollenzer-See
Author
Masch Gottlieb, Andreas and Daniel Woge
Publisher
Carl Friedrich Rellstab, Berlin, Germany
Publication year
1771
Binding
Softcover
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Mullen Books maintains a very active computerized inventory which grows by 2-300 titles per week. Our specialties include the Humanities, with an emphasis on Art, Architecture, Photography, Decorative Arts, History, as well as Periodicals related to those areas. We have very rare as well as fairly common titles. Current inventory is approximately 79,000 titles. We have about 1000' of backlog in our specialties numbering over 30,000 items (including 20,000+ smaller and ephemeral catalogues devoted to individual artist exhibitions). Current stock occupies over 2.3 miles of shelving. We are active buyers as well as very active sellers, and supply entire reference libraries as well as individual titles. We ship books almost everywhere, with the exception of China due to restrictions. Our website mullenbooks.com maintains our entire database of over 150,000 titles dynamically, so you can submit "wants" for books which are listed, but not currently in-stock. It is a major research tool. Despite what Google may indicate, we are only open to visitors by appointment, as our schedules are dynamic depending upon the needs of our valued employees.…

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