Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch oder Abriß der merkwürdigsten Welt=Begebenheiten enthaltend für 1784 die Geschichte der Revolution von Nord=America ...

Rare historical almanach about the history of the revolution in 1784 in North America. Illustrated with seventeen fine engravings related to the revolution in 1784 in North America, designed by Daniel Chodowiecki and probably all engraved by Berger, further illustrated with a folded fine engraved hand colored map of the United States drawn by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann after William Faden the Younger. Among the seventeen fine engravings by Chodowiecki we find one of the earliest engravings showing the flag of the United States. These fine engravings were engraved by Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (16 October 1726 – 7 February 1801). The almanach is also including the rare plate with the portraits of General Washington, General Gates, Dr. Franklin, Henry Laurens (President of the Continental Congress after John Hancock) and Paul Jones; among the other engravings is the scene of the ,Boston Tea Party', the protest for the ,Stamp Act' in Boston August 1764, etc. Daniel N. Chodowiecki was a Polish—and later German—painter and printmaker with Huguenot ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin, and became the director of the Berlin Academy of Art. Marbeled soft card board covered of the period. All engravings are hand colored in the period when published. Some of the engravings of the first section of book with marginal waterstains, which affected two of the engravings slightly more. A very rare almanach describing the noteworthy news for 1784 with a history of the revolution in North America. Very rare.