Description
- Notes:
- Verabfassets M. Johannes Praetorius, Zetlinga-Palaeo-Marchita, P.L.C. Mit Chur-Fürstl. sächsischer Freyheit.
- Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.
- Place of publication supplied by the VD17.
- A chronicle of the year 1666.
- Includes various American references including an account of the annexation of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam [New York City], an account of Quakers banished to Jamaica (p. 67), the English expedition to Hudson's Bay (p. 72), the shipping of slaves to Barbados (p. 73), and an account of the silver fleet which sailed from New Spain, which included tobacco grown in Virginia (p. 154-155)
- Signatures: A⁴ (-A4) (A1 verso blank) B-Z⁴
- Includes index.
- Engraved head and tail pieces; initials.
Citation
"M. DC. LXVI. Zodiacus Mercurialis das ist: Jährige europaeische Welt-Chronick:
so in einem wohl-verfasseten kurtzem Begriffe, alle merckwürdigste Begebenheiten vorbildet, welche sich im verschienenen und zu ruckgelegten 1666sten Wunder-Jahre, durch alle und einzälige Reiche dess Erdbodens zugetragen haben; mit nothdürfftigen schönen Kupffern, deutlichen Marginalien, und einem vollständigen Register gezieret
"
(1667).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:580856/
Relations
Collection:
-
John Carter Brown Library
The John Carter Brown Library is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities, founded in 1846 and located at Brown University since 1901. Housed within the library's walls is an internationally renowned collection …...