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Quarto, stiff pictorial card wraps, a little soiled and scuffed and with spine faded, pp. xix + 312, numerous illustrations, chiefly after early engravings. Small ownership stamp on the half-title-page, preliminary pages and edges foxed. 'Am 17. August 1676 starb in Renchen am Oberrhein Johann Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, vir honestus magno ingenio et eruditione. Dreihundert Jahre danach, 1976, ist das Werk dieses hervorragenden deutschen Barockdichters, des Verfassers des "Simplicissimus Teutsch", in seiner großen Bedeutung für die deutsche Literatur und Kunst jedem deutlich.' This catalogue is of an exhibition marking the tercentenary of Grimmelshausen's death, and looks both at the man and his times. His masterpiece was Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus (1669), commonly referred to as Simplicissimus - a picaresque novel telling the adventures of a simple youth who becomes successively soldier, jester, bourgeois, robber, pilgrim, slave, and hermit; it gives a realistic picture of the havoc wrought in Germany by Thirty Years' War (1618-48).…