‎RIEMER, J. ‎
‎Der Verbesserte und fast auff den Dritten Theil Vermehrte Lust-Redner, Darinn die Ernsthafften Regeln der Neuesten Rede-Kunst‎

‎Merseburg, Gottschick 1689 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, boards with scratches and part of gilting worn off. Small wormtract to upper margin of first few leaves. Last 72 ff. with small wormtract. (20), 364, (369)-835 pp. + double-page frontispiece.‎

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‎Rare third expanded edition of Riemer’s influential work on rhetoric providing the emerging bourgeoisie with linguistic tools. Riemer attended the Gymnasium in Halle with support from Gottfried Olearius and enrolled in theology and rhetoric at the University of Jena in 1670, earning a Master's degree in 1672. He taught at Jena's philosophical faculty and became a professor of logic and metaphysics at the Gymnasium Augusteum in Weissenfels in 1673. In 1678, he succeeded Christian Weise as chair of eloquence and poetry. Riemer gained fame for his rhetorical writings such as the present. He also wrote political-didactic dramas and novels, influential well into the 19th century. All editions are rarely found in the trade. ‎