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"Durchaus auff Schreibpappir gedruckt zu Dressden, im 1589. Jar."--Title page of volume 1.
Title page of volume 2 reads: Meissnische Bergk Chronica: darinnen fürnemlich von den Bergkwercken des Landes zu Meissen gehandelt wirdt, wie dieselben nach einander ausskomen. Mit welcher vrsach vnd gelegenheit auch anderer benachbarten, vnd zum teil abgelegenen Bergkwecken, fast in gantz Europa, etwas gedacht wird damit man sehe, wie die Bergkwerge nach einander belegt worden. Vnd entlich von allen Metallen vnd Metallarien, das ist: den jenigen Erdgegewechsen, so man zu den Metallis zu rechnenpfleget, welche im Lande zu Meyssen gefunden werden. Geschrieben durch Petrvm Albinvm M. Churf. Sächs. Registratorn vnd Secretarien, and has imprint Dressden M.D.XC.
Imprint taken from colophon in volume 2.
Virgules on title pages replaced by commas in transcriptions.
Includes references to Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and the circumnavigation of the earth by Ferdinand Magellan in volume 1, p. 2, 2nd count; also includes references to gold mines in Peru and Spanish relations with Montezuma in volume 2, p. 59.
Pagination: v. 1: [12], 240, 239-242, 245-449, [15] p.; v. 2: [8], 205, [7] p.
Errors in paging: v. 1: p. 425, 4th count, misnumbered 423; v. 2, p. 92, 94, 174, and 202 misnumbered 72, 74, 147, and 102.
Signatures: v. 1: ):(⁶ ():(1 verso blank) A-2P⁶ 2Q⁴; v. 2: ⁴ (1 verso blank) 2A-2R⁶ 2S⁴ (2S4 verso blank)
Includes indexes.
Errata: v. 1, p. [15], 5th count; v. 2, p. [6], 3rd count.
Title page of volume 1 printed in red and black; title pages printed within ornamental woodcut borders; head and tail pieces; initials.
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), 1678.
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), 1679.
Text printed primarily in German with some passages and verse in Latin.
John Carter Brown Library copy has volumes 1 and 2 bound together in contemporary full limp vellum with remnants of ties.
John Carter Brown LIbrary copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: intelligible ownership inscription from Aug. Vindel. [i.e. Augsburg] at head of title page of volume 1.
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