1638 World History Theatrum Historicum Chronology Marburg RARE Christoph Helwig

Christoph Helwig was an early 17th-century German chronologist known for his landmark work ‘Theatrum Historicum’. This work, first published in 1609, is an entire chronology of the history of the world beginning with Creation and the lineage of Adam. Short biographical notes and included throughout each ‘chart-like’ page. Helwig covers church history, use of astrology in pagan and religious circles, Greek, Roman, and Jewish histories, rise and fall of Turkish and Ottoman powers, importance of the Papacy, all with an extensive index through the mid-1600s. Thousands of names are included in this work most of which are featured in the year-by-year chart. An impressive and highly desirable work!

This 1638 edition includes notes and revisions by Johan Schupp.

Item number: #11304

Price: $599

HELWIG, Christoph

Christophori Helvici, V.C. Theatrum historicum et chronologicum : aequalibus denariorum, quinquagenariorum & centenariorum intervallis; cum assignatione imperiorum, regnorum, dynastiarum, regum aliorumque virorum celebrium, prophetarum, theologorum, jureconsultorum, medicorum, philosophorum, oratorum, historicorum, poëtarum, haereticorum, rabbinorum, conciliorum, synodorum, academiarum, &c. itemq[ue] usitatarum epocharum, ita digestum, ut universa temporum et historiarum series à primo mundi exordio

Marpurgi Cattorum [Marburg]: Typis & sumptibus Nicolai Hampelii, 1638.

Details:

·       Collation: Complete with all pages

o   [20], 169, [19]

·       Language: Latin

·       Binding: Leather; tight & secure

·       Size: ~11.5in X 8in (29.5cm x 20.5cm)

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