(CARION Johannes), Chronicorum libellus: maximas quasque res gestas,

Chronicorum libellus: maximas quasque res gestas,

ab initio mundi, apto ordine complectens: ita vt annorum ratio, ac praecipuae vicissitudines, quae in regna, in religionem, & in alias res magnas incidunt, quàm rectissimè cognosci ac obseruari queant. (Frankfurt 1543). Ex officina Petri Brubachii. (14 x 10 cm), p. [15], p. 250, binding board, sc. period.
(Estr. does not note). On sheet A2 the stamp "Tulczyn Library" (the book collection of Stanislaw Szczesny Potocki). Dedication to Joachim II Hector (1505-1571), Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Szczecin, Pomerania, Kashubia, ..., married to Jadwiga Jagiellonka daughter of King Sigismund the Old of Poland. A comprehensive chronicle of the world, beginning with antiquity (Poland mentioned, as well as the Poles, Pomerania, Lithuania, the Baltic, the Vistula, the Oder). Carion Johannes (1499-1538) - prominent historian, mathematician and astronomer-astrologer (contradicted Copernican theory). Traces of dampstain and stains, own inscription. "Jos. de Wittej." , title page missing (here in reprod.), board binding, with loss of leather on spine and back cover, heavy rubbing, buckle marks, book block loose. Rare.