Uncut sheet of forms from the 18th-century German trade in salt.

[Salt] / [Ephemera]. Daß aus der allhiesigen Kön. Salz-Leeg-Stadt … Anheut … Kauf-Salz geladen had, solches wird hiermit bezeuget. Actum. S.l. [Southern Germany]: s.n., s.a. [18th century]. [23.0 x 17.9 cm], [1] f., with woodcut roundels of a lion rampant. Minor toning, staining and wrinkling, wormhole in lower margin.
 
 
Uncut sheet of six 18th-century forms relating to the official trade in salt in Germany, The sheet was printed in the Palatinate, judging from the woodcut ‘seals’ depicting the Palatine Lion. The forms were to be used in a salt Leeg-Stadt (or Legstadt), i.e., a city designated as a hub for the storage, distribution and taxation of salt (a state monopoly at the time). They were to be completed by hand with the quantity of alt in question and the names of the people acquiring the salt and certifying the transaction. 
 
Ephemeral printing of this sort rarely survives.