‎KLEVENFELDT, TERKEL.‎
‎Nobilitas Daniae ex monumentis. - [DANISH FUNERAL MONUMENTS]‎

‎(No place, nor year, but 1777) Folio (328 x 208 mm). 13 loose uncut sheets: 1 title-page and 12 beautiful engravings by Georg Vilhelm Baurenfeind, Jonas Haas depicting funeral monuments of Danish nobility. Fine and clean. ‎

Reference : 61309

‎Exceedingly rare first appearance of Klevenfeldt's beautiful depictions of 12 funeral monuments of Danish nobility.Terkel Klevenfeldt (1710 - 1777) was a Danish genealogist and historical collector whose work encompassed drawings of seals, transcriptions of charters, and genealogical charts. Although virtually none of his work was published during his lifetime, his diligent efforts preserved valuable information for future generations.Historian Erich Christian Werlauff, even two generations after Klevenfeldt’s death, praised him as the foremost expert on Danish-Norwegian noble history and genealogy. Another historian, Vedel Simonsen, albeit less cautiously, advocated for the publication of Klevenfeldt's genealogical charts. The work is of the utmost scarcity and OCLC only list two copies, both in Denmark. We have not been able to trace a single copy at auction.It was later enlarged by 21 plates. Biblioteca Danica III, 937.‎