(Heineccius, Johann Ludwig von). Detailed topographical description of the Duchy of Magdeburg and the County of Mansfeld, Magdeburgian Antheil. I Bl., 504 pp., 1 Bl. (Errata). With engraved title vignette by Meil. 23,5 x 20 cm. Modern marbled semi-leather band with subtle gold plated gold and gold stamped title. Berlin, Georg Jakob Decker, 1785. Engelmann 654. Holzmann-Bohatta I, 5936. Dorn, Meil 435. – Only edition. After listing the maps of the Duchy of Magdeburg and the County of Mansfeld, the four districts (Holzkreis, Jerichowscher Kreis, Ziesarsch Kreis and Saalkreis) as well as the County mansfeld are recorded in detail with their cities and statistics such as number of inhabitants, number of fire places, facilities such as baking houses, wind or oil mills, jurisdiction, factories, Monasteries, churches, etc. Magdeburg and Halle are described, with the towns of Sudenburg, Neustadt, Acken, Calbe, Egeln, Frose, Grossen Salze, Hadmersleben, Schönebeck, Stasfurth, Wanzleben, Seehausen, Neuhaldens Leben, Oebisfelde, Wollmirstädt, Burg, Loburg, Görzke, Möckern, Sandau, Genthin, Jerichow, Ziesar, Alsleben and Glaucha, Lobejün, Neumarkt, Wettin, Gerbstätte, Leimbach, Mansfeld, Helfta, Wood cell, shrapnel and the respective 'plate land'. With two-column register (p. 495-504). – Something leimschattig. Fl. Wall and title stamped several times and with numeric signature, interior mirror with modern exlibris, otherwise well preserved. Gift copy for the Berlin Köllnische Realgymnasium, with corresponding hs. Entry of August Rhau, who worked as a preacher in the Ucclesiastical village of Parstein and was a "subrector" of the school for some time, dated 1814.