96. "History of Transalpine Dacia, namely Wallachia, Moldavia and Bessarabia (Geschichte des Transalpinischen Daciens)", by Franz Joseph Sulzer, German, three volumes, Vienna, 1781-1782

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Franz Ioseph Sulzer (1727-1791) was an officer, geographer, and Austrian historian of Swiss origin, active in the Habsburg army alongside which he arrived in Transylvania in the context of the Austro-Russian-Ottoman wars of the second half of the seventeenth century. After finishing his military career, he was employed as a secretary by the Phanariot ruler of Wallachia, Alexandru Ipsilanti, who appreciated his Enlightenment culture, encyclopedic training, and knowledge. During his stay in Muntenia, he began writing this work that gathers important information about these regions north of the Danube, of geographic, demographic, and historical order. The work is part of a series of Enlightenment works written at the mouths of the Danube. It is also valuable because, due to Ipsilanti's disgrace, it turned into a criticism of his reign and the Phanariot regime in general. It was published in Vienna in three volumes. The copies, in good conservation condition, have period paper covers.

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custom 23 x 15 cm (fiecare)

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