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
OCLC: 899242954