BRUN, Friederike.

Leipzig, Hartleben's Verlags-Expedition, 1818. 8vo. XXIV,+ 350,+ (1) s.+ 2 fold. engr. aquatint plates. Foxing, especially in the beginning ant at the end. The first plate with foxing. Red half cloth from mid 19th century, gilt spine, with the gilt monogram of the Danish king Christian IX in top compartment. Library and ex-library stamp from Staatsbiblioteket i Aarhus. Owner’s signature of Hans Hartvig Seedorff. Garcia 2211. Edited and with a preface by Karl August Böttiger. The author Friederike Sophie Christiane Brun (1765-1835) was daughter to the priest Balthasar Münter and sister to the former bishop in Copenhagen Friedrich Münter. She was born in Thüringen, and arrived in 1770 to Copenhagen, where she married Konstantin Brun in 1783. She was to spend most of her life travelling around Europe, and she published several collections of poems. She travelled to Italy many times, beginning in 1795 together with the princess Luise von Anhalt-Dassau, returning in 1796 and in 1807 when she stayed until 1810. From the visists she also published ”Briefe aus Rom” in 1818 and ”Römisches Leben” in 1833. She is often called the Madame de Staël of the Nordic. Chapter seven, pp 83-94 deals with Pompeii and the folding plate depicts a reconstructed impluvium from a casa in Pompeii, after a painting by Gustav Hetsch. Also with a chapter on the music in Naples. Christian IX (1863-1906) King of Denmark. The Danish author Hans Hartvig Seedorff wrote a book on Pompejii, ”Pompeji - breve fra Byen som ikke ville dø”.