425 Years Old Document on Vellum
– dated WEISSENFELS ( + NAUMBURG ) Aug. 14, 1581 –
on Brewing + Selling Licenses
Weissenfels – Naumburg – Collection of Statutes on brewing + selling licenses in Weißenfels, Naumburg and the surrounding places under the dukes Georg (1471-1539) + August (1526-1586). German writing on vellum. Weissenfels (and Naumburg) Aug. 14, 1581. Fol. 4 sheet, the last white. With the signatures of chancellor Emschalk and the clerk Vogel. With wax seal on cord.
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WEISSENFELS + NAUMBURG as POSTAL STATIONS
at “Artificial Road” with “Express Service”
(Saxon States, Map of the Grand Ducal + Ducal.) With title & 2 explanation cartouches and small separate map of the western possession of Idar-Oberstein – Birkenfeld – Ottweiler. Detail map by Walther after Friedrich Wilhelm Streit (d. 1839) in steel engraving by A. Heimburger, colored in outline. (1833-37.) 23.4 x 27.5 cm.
Rich local references including postal routes + stations, navigabilities, mountain passes, universities + high schools . – Up to Bleicherode – Halle – Penig – Plauen – Münchberg – Thurnau – Haßfurt – Hünfeld – Waldkappel . – Centred on Weimar – Rudolstadt .
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Saxe, Cartes de la Haute, et de la Lusace. Upper Saxony and Lusatia. With title-cartouche and miles indicator. Map by Edme Mentelle (1730-1815), historiograph of the Comte de Artois, engraved by Pierre François Tardieu, Paris. (1788.) 35.6 x 47 cm. – Watermark.
With WEISSENFELS + NAUMBURG . – Centered on the Fair place Leipsic .
Dresden finely in the right center field . In the left outer field still with place + D(uché) Eisenach . – Ballenstedt – Hoym – Bernburg at the northwestern fringe . – Up to Goslar – Potsdam – Fürstenwalde – Sagan – Greiffenberg – Eger – Schweinfurt – Eschwege .
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Zeitz, Haus (administrative district Merseburg, Mansfeld Lake district). The property situated in fine parkland beyond which the look goes far into the country. Chromolithograph by Theodor Albert (Magdeburg 1822 – Berlin 1867) for Alex. Duncker, Berlin. 14.9 x 19.8 cm. – See the complete description.
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“ Thanks for shipping the print. It has arrived here in excellent shape. Happy holidays ”
(Mr. H. A. P., December 12, 2001)