PUFENDORF, SAMUEL VON. Histoire du regne de Charles Gustave roy de Svede comprise en sept commentaires enrichis de tailles douces, traduite en françois sur le latin. Nürnberg, Chistophle Riegel par Knorz imprimeur, 1697.

Folio (355x223 mms). (12), 5-432; (2), 435-752, 35, (9) pp. Engraved extra title, 12 engraved portraits (some minor foxing), 115 partly double-page or folding engraved maps (in reality 127, all, the large furneral plate consists of 12 plates, here joined together, plates with some minor foxing; text with some foxing).
Contemporary light brown full calf, somewhat worn, blind-tooled frames, gilt edges of covers, richly gilt spines in seven compartments, speckled edges. Signature on title to vol. I and halftitle to vol. II Francois Josephe comte de Plettenberg. Bookplate "Nordkirchen". 2 volumes.
Probably Franz Joseph Maria von Plettenberg und Wittem (1714- 1779 ) war deutscher kaiserlicher Kämmerer, Reichsgraf sowie münsterischer Erbmarschall und Kurkölnischer Erbkämmerer.

French edition of this richly illustrated work on the Swedish king Charles X and his wars in Poland, Germany etc.
The first edition was published in latin 1696, and a second latin edition in 1729.
The writing of this official history of the Swedish wars with Poland and Denmark from 1655 to 1660 was entrusted by king Charles XI to Samuel Pufendorf, a German historian and expert on international law, who held the first chair of history at the new university of Lund (1668-1676) and was the official Historiographer of the Realm from 1676 until 1689. (Sten G. Lindberg: Swedish Books 1280-1967.)