Prague 1687; Univesitatis Carolo-Ferdinandea Pragensi. 20.5x31.50 cm, pp. (8), 282, 8 genealogical tables, (11), portraits in copperplate (49), hardcover, half cloth, titlepage on spine. Good condition (some pages discolored at edges, characteristic yellowing of paper, frontispiece glued on paper).
One of the most important works by Bohuslav Balbin (1621-1688), Czech historian, writer, educator - a history of the princes and kings of Bohemia written on the basis of original documents, with the addition of genealogies and portraits of the kings and princes of Bohemia from the Přemyslid, Jagiellonian, Habsburg, Luxembourg dynasties. Portraits signed by Anton Birkhart.