191 - A Summary Chronicle

A Summary Chronicle or an Account of the Thirty Years’ War, fought in Germany beginning in the year 1618, and the subsequent peace negotiations. Including an appendix up to the present year, in which everything that has occurred is recorded briefly and truthfully for each day, month, and year. - ╔Included:╗ A list of those electors, princes, and estates of the Holy Roman Empire, as well as the present councilors, envoys, and ambassadors, as they have successively arrived and presented their credentials at the Imperial Diet convened in Regensburg on the 21st and 31st days of October in the year 1652. - ╔Included:╗ His Most Gracious Imperial Majesty’s Proclamation concerning the General Imperial Assembly convened in Regensburg on October 31 and November 10, 1652. As well as the Imperial Proposition issued on June 20 and 30 of that year, which was presented in the presence of His Roman Imperial Majesty and a large assembly of the Electors and Estates at the Town Hall in Regensburg. Along with the customary procession from the Ritterstuben to St. Thomas Church, and from there to the Town Hall in Regensburg. Along with the customary procession from the Ritterstuben to St. Thomas Church, and from there to the Town Hall. - ╔Enclosed:╗ The Capitulation of His Most Illustrious and Most Powerful Prince and Lord Ferdinand IV, Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slavonia, [etc.] King, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Steyr, Carinthia, Carniola, and Württemberg, [etc.], Count of Tyrol, [etc.], drawn up in Augsburg on May 29, 1653. 4 works in 1 volume. Strasbourg, Peter Aubry (1st work) and no place or printer (2nd–4th works) 1650 and 1653. 22 pp., [1] leaf with illustrated engraved title page; [14] leaves; [10] leaves; [12] leaves. Modern cardboard binding with floral colored paper. I. VD17 12:150825V. - III. VD17 12:112110H. - IV. VD17 14:005995Z. - An interesting anthology containing 4 rare pamphlets on the Thirty Years’ War and the Peace of Westphalia on October 24, 1648, as well as the so-called “Latest Imperial Act” (the final document of the Regensburg Imperial Diet of 1653/1654): “This document, with its unusual title, is the final Imperial Resolution of an officially convened and officially concluded Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire. This last official Imperial Diet was also the first to be held after the end of the Thirty Years’ War. The Imperial Diet was intended to address issues and problems that had remained unresolved at the conclusion of the Peace of Westphalia. Some difficult tasks could not be completed, and even the Imperial Diet convened in Regensburg 10 years later, in 1663, was unable to resolve these old and new problems. It was therefore not officially adjourned and soon came to be known as the Perpetual Diet. Furthermore, the resolutions passed were no longer drafted as official imperial decrees and could no longer be designated as such. Instead, these resolutions were referred to simply as “imperial conclusions” (conclusa imperii)” (Wikipedia). — The beautiful title page of the first volume bears an old owner’s inscription (dated 1705); the book is slightly browned throughout but otherwise in very good condition.