Abel, Caspar. Stiffts-Stadt- und Land-Chronicle, the present prince's town of Halberstadt, in which the history of this pleasant episcopate ... the Bishöffe, Ertz-Bischöffe and abtissennen together with an accurate list of all Stiffter and Monasteries, Gauen, Grafen and Herrschäfte, cities, castles and Dörffer were described. 13 Bl., 626 pp., 3 Bl. With stung frontispiece and 3 copper plates. 21 x 17,5 cm. Marbled semi-perchment tape d. Z. (straightened and rubbed). Bernburg, Christoph Gottfried Cörner, 1754. VD18 14375117. Thinhead I, 32. ADB I, 12. NDB I, 12. – First edition of the Chronicle of the Theologian and Historian Caspar Abel (1676-1763). Treats floods, storms, epidemics etc. The frontispiece with an overall view of Halberstadt, hovering above it the Prussian eagle. "For the local history still usable now" (NDB). – Very nice and well preserved specimen.