Dreissigjähriger Krieg. Beck (Elias, alias Heldenmuth). Hundred-Year Anniversary…
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Dreissigjähriger Krieg.

Beck (Elias, alias Heldenmuth). Hundred-Year Anniversary of the Quick War Fortune of the Swedish Hero and King Gustavi Adolphi in the Conquest of all these here attached and engraved towns and places in pre- and rear-Pomerania, Mecklenburg in the Ueber-Mittle, new and old Brandenburgermarck on the Oder, Havel, and Elbe rivers in the same in Saxony, Churingia, Franconia, Palatinate, and Maya. Old Brandenburgermarck, at the Oder, Havel, and Elbe river in the same in Saxony, Churingia, Francke, Palatinate, at the Mayn, Neckar, and Rhine river which in Ao. 1630 and 1631 all have to surrender partly by agreement partly by storm to his victorious sword. Etching by Elias Baeck. Augsburg [1732]. 36 x 29 cm. With 103 views of German cities. A rare engraved print showing twelve rows of thumbnail size images of 103 German cities and towns captured by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in campaigns between 1630 and 1632 during the Thirty Years War. Published on the hundredth anniversary of the death of Gustavus Adolphus in the Battle of Lützen in 1632. R

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Dreissigjähriger Krieg.

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