Poloniam Imperio Romano Germanico nunquam subjectam. consensu inclytijurisconsultorum ordinis in Argentoratensium Universitate [...] doctoralem

Ludovicus Guillelmus Tepper Ferguson

Johann Heinrich Heitz, Argentoratum
Strasburg

1789
in-folio (308 x 249 x 15 mm)
Acquisition year in-folio

Inv. 0507
Catalogue N. A451

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Ludovicus Guillelmus Ferguson Tepper, Poloniam Imperio Romano Germanico nunquam subjectam consensu inclyti jurisconsultorum ordinis in Argentoratensium Universitate [...] doctoralem, J. H. Heitz, Argentoratum [Strasburg] 1789

This embroidered binding was made for Stanislas August Poniatowski (1732-98), last King of Poland, around 1790. A protégé of Catherine II, Poniatowski was elected king in 1764; he was unable to stop the partition of Poland and abdicated in 1795.

Mirjam Foot