DE MONSTRIS et MONSTROSIS, quam mirabilis bonus et justus in mundo administrando sit Deus Monstrantibus by Georgio Stengelio (Theologe) (Stengel, Georg, 1584-1651) - 1647

Ingolstadij: Apud G. Hænlin, sumtu I. Wagneri, 1647. DE MONSTRIS et MONSTROSIS, quam mirabilis bonus et justus in mundo administrando sit Deus Monstrantibus- by Georgio Stengelio (Theologe) (Stengel, Georg, 1584-1651)- Ingolstadij: Apud G. Hænlin, sumtu I. Wagneri- 1647- 1st Edition- illustrated title page vignette- Hardcover:-Small 8vo- Near FINE/ no dj as issued- modern 1/2 brown calf and marbled boards with gilt title and date, 3 raised bands on spine- tight, square and clean- blank, blank, [16], 1-636, [52], blank, blank, new endpapers.-Collation of Signatures: A-Z8 [X4 printed instead of Z4], Aa-Xx8 [Pp2 printed instead of Qq2] Complete!- Conforms with copy of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, Germany- [8] Bl., 636 S., [26] Bl. ; 8° Signaturformel: A-Z8 [X4 statt Z4], Aa-Xx8 [Pp2 statt Qq2]- light forxing, clean, no tears- Association Copy: From the library of Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor- Please see PHOTOS- Charles VI, 1685–1740, Holy Roman emperor (1711–40), king of Bohemia (1711–40) and, as Charles III, king of Hungary (1712–40); brother and successor of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I Joseph I, 1678–1711, Holy Roman emperor (1705–11), king of Hungary (1687–1711) and of Bohemia (1705–11), son and successor of Leopold I. Charles was the last Holy Roman emperor of the direct Hapsburg line. In 1700 he was designated successor in Spain to King Charles II, who was childless. On his deathbed, however, Charles II left his throne to Philip of Anjou (Philip V Philip V, 1683–1746, king of Spain (1700–1746), first Bourbon on the Spanish throne. A grandson of Louis XIV of France, he was titular duke of Anjou before Charles II of Spain designated him as his successor. Charles VI. was a bigoted Catholic, linked with the Spanish yard manners, leading to a new wave of counter-reformation and the suspension of some of the reforms started by Joseph I. in the Czech lands. The emperor had no male child and was the last Habsburg in the male line. In the 13th Century the Count of Habsburg-Laufenburg built a castle, Schloss Biberstein, and the surrounding village to limit the territorial expansion of the Counts of Kyburg. Inscription on second blank page at front...translated from Latin....."“Dedicated work from the library of his Serene Highness and Knight of the Holy Roman Empire Carolus Lux at Laufenburg.”- Other PO name on lower title page- rare: first edition of this work monsters and monstrosities, both physical and moral. The philosopher and theologian Georg Stengel (or Georgius Stengelius) was born in Augsbourg in 1584 and died in 1651 in Ingolstadt. He joined the Jesuit order in 1601 and went on to study rhetoric, pholosophy, theology and the humanities at various European Universities before serving as professor of theology at the univserity of Ingolstadt from 1618 to 1629.- A beautiful and scarce association copy!- Non-fiction-science-theology-monsters-abnormalities-association copy- (3750) . 1st Edition. 1/2 Leather & Marble Boards. Near FINE/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Title Vignette. 8vo . Association Copy.