154 - HERTZOG (Bernhard). *Chronicon Alsatiae*. A Chronicle of Alsace and a Detailed Description of Lower Alsace on the Rhine, as well as Its Most Distinguished Towns. As well as the former landgraves, bishops, counts, and rulers, noble and bourgeois families, their genealogies, coats of arms, and regalia. Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1592.

HERTZOG (Bernhard). *Chronicon Alsatiae*. A Chronicle of Alsace and a Detailed Description of Lower Alsace on the Rhine, as well as Its Most Distinguished Towns. As well as the former landgraves, bishops, counts, and rulers, noble and bourgeois families, their genealogies, coats of arms, and regalia. Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1592. Large 4to, [16]-155-1p.b.-239-1p.b.-131-1p.b.-312-233-[3]-1p.b. pp., first edition of this chronicle of Alsace, providing an accurate description of Lower Alsace along the banks of the Rhine, including the major cities, the history of the counts and bishops of the county and bishopric of Strasbourg, illustrated with numerous coats of arms engraved in the text and a fold-out plate, most of the coats of arms later enhanced with color. Brown half-shagreen binding with corner pieces, spine decorated with 5 raised bands, all edges red. Handwritten inscription at the top of the title page. Saffroy (II, no. 16386) “The jewel of Alsatian libraries.” (wormholes occasionally affecting the text, mainly at the beginning and end of the volume; title page doubled; handwritten annotations; binding rubbed)