Original bright red cloth highly decorated in black and gold on beveled boards. Text in German. Bookplate of Bibliotheca Collegii Regulis apud Windesoram (Nova Scotia) with Withdrawn stamp. In back is a blank "Date Due" slip, indicating it was never circulated. Purchased in a lot from Sisters of Charity. A beautiful little volume of 87 pp. The author was born Julius Sophus Felix Dahn, eldest son of Friedrich and Constanze Dahn, actors in Hamburg's city theatre. A right-wing professor of law in several universities with several important publications to his credit, he was elected rector of the university at Breslau, where he died shortly before his 78th birthday, in 1889..