Leipzig & Frankfurt, Caspar Lunitz, 1681. 8vo. In contemporary vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Traces from old paper-label to spine. Soiling to extremities. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Frontispiece closely trimmed in upper margin with minor loss, otherwise internally nice and clean. (14), 735 pp.
First edition of this rare compendium on poetry, rhetoric and oratory including a dictionary with rhyme-pairs. Of all the works on rhetoric and eloquence published in the period this present is considered one of the best. Riemer (1648-1714) studied theology and rhetoric in Jena and taught eloquence and poetry as the successor to Christian Weise at the Gymnasium of Weissenfels. Krause 427Harold Jantz collection, no. 2115Not in Goedeke