Possibly issued as part of the author's Nuclei historiae universalis, printed in two volumes in Augsburg and Ulm, 1664, and/or Historiae universalis cum sacrae, tum profanae nucleus, first printed Ulm, 1664

This volume contains a chronological entry for 1595 describing Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the new world and his death the following year from dysentery

Woodcut map with title "Adumbrata obiter Angliae facies pro aliquali eiusdem cognitione" is counted as gathering [dagger]A1, p. [1], 2nd count

Signatures: [dagger]⁴ ([dagger]1 verso blank) [dagger]A-[dagger]E¹² ([dagger]E7 missigned [dagger]E6) ([dagger]E11 verso, [dagger]E12 blank)

Woodcut vignette of cherub on title page; head and tail pieces; initials

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 5th item of 5 with the author's: Germaniae provinciarum Europae amplissimae & potentissimae chronologia, Frankfurt, 1664

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full vellum

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Maryann Lippitt Fund

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Weddige: bookstamp on tilte page of first work

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