Saxony-Anhalt Dreyhaupt, Johann Christoph von Genealogical tables or genealogical registers of the most distinguished noble families settled in the Saal-Creyse with knightly estates as well as of the most distinguished old and new, partly deceased, noble, patrician and bourgeois families of Halle. (= Pagus Neletici et Nudzici, 2). With 6 full-page copper plates depicting coats of arms and several woodcuts. Halle, Schneider, 1750. folio. HLdr. d. Zt. with R-gilt and black embossed R-title (somewhat rubbed). Johann Christoph Dreyhaupt (1699-1768) was a lawyer and historian. He held numerous high offices in his home town of Halle, such as Schultheißen and Salzgrafen, and is the author of the two-volume work Beschreibung des Saalkreises, a comprehensive and regionally historically significant treatise on the city of Halle and its surrounding area.