Abel, Caspar. Teutsche and Saxon Alterthümer, the Teutschen, and Saxony, ancient history, and ancestors, nearness and origin, and fatherland, etc. Velvet of a never-printed Lower Saxon chronicle. 2 parts in 1 volume. 7 Bl., 512 S. With stung frontipiz. 16.5 x 10 cm. Semi-pergament d. C. (somewhat stained and rubbed) with hs. Title. Brunswick, Ludolph Schröder, 1729. NDB I, 12th – First edition. In volume I of the three-volume edition, which deals with the history of the Germanic migration of peoples. "In his 'German and Saxon Alterthümern', 1729-1732. 3 Bde. 8°, in the taste of time he sought to lighten the dark prehistory of the peoples by dreamy etymologies" (NDB). – In places he was weakly tanned, otherwise well preserved. Title with the name stamp of the East Westphalian-Lippish noble family Kerssenbrock.