Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (1713-1780) “because of the present extremely expensive cereals purchase” allowing a temporary rise in prices compulsory upon everybody since the brewers “otherwise are not able … to continue … brewing”. Published Wolfenbüttel May 28, 1740. Without place + printer (1740). 33.8 x 40 cm. 1 page. With woodcut initial. With the ducal signature printed together with the L(oco) S(igilli) mark and that of A. A. v. Cramm.

comprising also the penal provision “to prepare oneself such as to have a sufficient stock of excellent beer anytime available”.

Of unused freshness on untrimmed handmade paper with margins of 3.5-5.5 cm with figurative and typographic watermark. – The centre fold slightly squeezed.

On Charles, nephew of the emperor Charles VI., brother-in-law of Frederick the Great, founder of the Collegium Carolinum, governing since 1735, see ADB XV, 266 ff.
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