Höchste Welt- und Krieges Häupter
Subtitle: welche des Fried-brüchigen Türckischen Hochmuth durch zwey Feld-Züge in Ungaren also gedemüthiget, dass er in dem dritten den Frieden bittlich suchen, und annemmen müssen
By: zu ewigem Angedencken durch Kupffer und Beschreibung der Welt vorgestellet von dem Hoch-Fürstlichen Collegio S. Hieronymi in Dillingen, Anno 1718
Contributors: Steidl, Melchior, 1657-1727; Fridrich, Jacob Andreas, 1684-1751; Universität Dillingen
Publisher: In Verlag Johann Caspar Bencards
Published: 1718
Place of publication: Augspurg und Dillingen
Language: ger
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Austro-Turkish War, 1716-1718; Generals; Biography; Military History
Notes: Consists of [11] sections, each devoted to a leader of victorious European resistance to the Turks in the Austro-Turkish War of 1716-1718. Each section contains a three-part prose encomium of the leader's activity, concluded by brief Latin verses on the same with German translation. The subjects of sections [9] and [10] are groups of lesser military figures, while that of section [11] is "Der Triumphrierende Fried." Associated with each section is an engraved portrait of its subject, with supporters, attributes and a vignette.

German and Latin.

Title printed in red and black.

Of the 3 plates that are signed by the artist, no. [1] is after Johann Georg Bergmüller and no. [10]-[11] are after Melchior Steidl. All plates but the last are signed by the engraver, Jacob Andreas Fridrich.

Signatures: [pi]1 )(² )()(² A-S².

Library's copy in old binding of blue decorated paper over pasteboard.