Title
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
Title Variants
Alternative:
Jährige europäische Welt-Chronick
Alternative:
Zodiacus Mercurialis
By
Praetorius, Johannes, 1630-1680
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
[Nuremberg], Verlegts Johann Hoffmann Kunsthändler, Anno M. DC. LXVII. [1667]
Notes
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.
Subjects
1648-1789
,
Barbados
,
Europe
,
History
,
Imprint 1667
,
Jamaica
,
New York (N.Y.)
,
Quakers
,
Slavery
,
Slaves
,
Tobacco
,
Virginia
Language
German
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.100521
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