{"product_id":"kilian-wolfgang","title":"KILIAN, Wolfgang.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.First edition of this richly illustrated work of Habsburg genealogy by the Augsburg engraver Wolfgang Kilian (1581-1662), with a distinguished English provenance. Kilian s finely engraved heraldic shields are accompanied by full-page and folding genealogies of the Habsburg emperors, the largest attributing their origin to the legendary Frankish king Pharamund. The map depicts Habsburg territories in Switzerland and Alsatia. The engraved portraits of the Habsburg emperors, archdukes and dukes each contain a small emblem, which is accompanied by Latin verses continued below the engraving in letterpress. Narcissus Luttrell was an English political historian and diarist, and a noted and prolific book collector. Luttrell is best-known for his habit of buying everything that was published as it came out, including a vast array of pamphlets concerning fictitious Popish Plot of the late 1670s.  After more than three decades of acquisitions (beginning in his student days), he calculated in 1706 that he had laid out over £1500 on such purchases; unfortunately, his wish that his library pass intact to some  public  institution such as Gray s Inn was not wholly heeded by his descendants. So while a substantial number of the printed works from his library were eventually acquired by the British Library, many (often bearing his colophon) have found resting places elsewhere  (ODNB). There does not seem to be any connection between Glascock, an Irish collector and the book s previous owner (who appears to have had quite an extensive library), and Luttrell; presumably it was purchased on the second-hand market. .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILIAN, Wolfgang.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868713492815,"sku":"L4752","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Screenshot-2025-09-10-at-12.13.24-PM.png?v=1781793384","url":"https:\/\/www.sokol.co.uk\/products\/kilian-wolfgang","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}