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1707 Heineccius & Leuckfeld — Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum | Case File 062: THE ARCHIVE IN THE BINDING Impressive large-folio 1707 German historical source collection by Johann Michael Heineccius and Johann Georg Leuckfeld, bringing together roughly seventeen works and sections in one contemporary calf binding. Illustrated with 26 engraved plates plus a folding genealogical table, including seals, coins, medals, portraits, monuments, heraldry, and documentary material. The volume reflects an early evidence-based approach to history: Heineccius and Leuckfeld worked from charters, manuscripts, seals, coins, archives, and monuments, and surviving correspondence links Heineccius’s research directly to material later printed here. This copy also carries a Luther Appley Old Curiosity Shop, Philadelphia purchase label and an intriguing manuscript “No. 75” that very likely corresponds to Karl W. Hiersemann’s 1925 Catalogue 558, item 75. A substantial and visually striking 1707 scholarly fo