Mercurius Gallobelgicus: siue, Rerum in Gallia & Belgio Potissimum: Hispania Quoque, Italia, Anglia, Germania, Polonia, vicinisque locis ab anno 1588. vsque ad Martium anni praesentis 1594. gestarum, nuncius. Opusculum in Sex Libros…
D. M. Jansonio [Michael ab Isselt]Coloniae Agrippinae [Cologne]: Godefridum Kempensem, 1594.
Second Edition.
16cm x 10cm. [32], 685 pages. Contemporary limp vellum, gilt decoration, manuscript lettering, all edges gilt and gauffered. Text is in Latin.
One of the earliest printed periodical news publications and a direct forerunner of the newspaper, collecting reports of events from 1588 to March 1594 in six books covering France, the Low Countries, Spain, Italy, England, Germany, Poland, and neighbouring regions. The first edition, published in 1592, comprised five books and covered events to September of that year. This second edition expands the work to six books, continuing the account to March of 1594. The six books were subsequently incorporated into the expanding multi-volume series, first issued in collected form from 1596, making this the first complete edition of the six books that form the foundation of the Mercurius Gallobelgicus series.
Minor tanning to vellum. The original fore-edge string ties lacking. Very clean interior. Near Fine Condition.
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AU$2,000