Rare first and only edition of a contemporary chronicle of the years 1620-1625 comprising multiple European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Turkey, and the Low Countries. It was written by the author and translator Adriaen van Meerbeeck (1563-1627), born in Antwerp, who is known for his chronicles, and accounts of royal funerals. According to Van der Aa, the present work is particularly interesting for the history of the Southern Low Countries, and contains information not yet found anywhere else. It also includes an important history of the first years of the Dutch West India Company (WIC), which was founded in 1621. The work is very rare on the market, as we have not been able to find any other copies in sales records.
With a library stamp on the title page and first page, and a shelf mark label mounted on the front pastedown. The edges and corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed, the head of the spine is damaged, the joints are weakened, but the structural integrity of the binding is still intact, remnants of a label at the foot of the spine. A line of printed text on the title page has been erased, the work is somewhat browned throughout, a partially repaired tear in leaf B1 of the third part, lacking blank leaf E4 in the third part. Otherwise in good condition. Aa , A.J. van der, 12, pp. 483; STCV 3119959 (3 copies, of which 2 incomplete); WorldCat 67025806, 66120020 (15 copies, of which 2 incomplete); not in Nijhoff.