608 - Surius, Laurentius. A Brief Chronicle or Description of the Most Important Events and Stories That Have Taken Place in Both Religious and Secular Matters Throughout Nearly the Entire World from the Year ... M.D. up to the year M.D.LXVIII ... now faithfully translated into German by Henricum Fabricium. Cologne, Calenius and Quentel, 1568. 6 unnumbered leaves, 377 leaves. 33 x 21 cm. Contemporary blind-embossed leather binding with cover embossing “V S 1568” (spine replaced c. 1750, cover restored, wormholes).

Surius, Laurentius. A Brief Chronicle or Description of the Most Important Events and Stories That Have Taken Place in Both Religious and Secular Matters Throughout Nearly the Entire World from the Year ... M.D. up to the year M.D.LXVIII ... now faithfully translated into German by Henricum Fabricium. Cologne, Calenius and Quentel, 1568. 6 unnumbered leaves, 377 leaves. 33 x 21 cm. Contemporary blind-embossed leather binding with cover embossing “V S 1568” (spine replaced c. 1750, cover restored, wormholes). VD16 p. 10249 - BM STC German Books 844 - Sabin 93888. - First German edition of this chronicle, translated by Heinrich Fabricius, Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer. The period covered ranges from 1500 to 1568, with accounts of Spanish conquests in the Americas by Cortés in Mexico and Pizarro in Peru (pp. 262–267); further accounts of: Jesuit missionary Francisco de Xavier (fol. 185), the Turkish invasion of Hungary (fol. 188). - Inside cover with wormholes; title highlighted, with individual letters added; page margins stained in places; wormholes at the beginning up to page 41 and at the end starting on page 320. - From the library of St. Peter, Salzburg, with an engraved bookplate; ownership inscription on the title page: “Conventus S. Petri Salisburg. 1615.” *