6 p.l., 51, [1] pp. Small 8vo, attractive antique calf-backed marbled boards. Bremen: 1689.

First edition and scarce; WorldCat locates no copy in North America. “In Germany, no greater supporter, and conveyer into the German context, of the reforming ideas of Bontekoe, Overkamp, Blankaart and Muys could be found during their own time, or later, than Janusz Abraham Gehema (1647-1715). The Danzig-born son of Abraham Jakobson, an ennobled Polish official, chief administrative officer and royal chamberlain to the King of Poland, Janusz Abraham, from the age of fourteen, served in the Polish army as well as with foreign troops…In 1672, his military service... More

8 p.l., 80 pp. Small 8vo, attractive antique calf-backed marbled boards. Bremen: 1688.

First edition and scarce; WorldCat locates only two copies in North America. “In Germany, no greater supporter, and conveyer into the German context, of the reforming ideas of Bontekoe, Overkamp, Blankaart and Muys could be found during their own time, or later, than Janusz Abraham Gehema (1647-1715). The Danzig-born son of Abraham Jakobson, an ennobled Polish official, chief administrative officer and royal chamberlain to the King of Poland, Janusz Abraham, from the age of fourteen, served in the Polish army as well as with foreign troops…In 1672, his military... More