Sarmatiae evropeae descriptio :
qvae regnvm Poloniae, Litvaniam, Samogitiam, Rvssiam, Massoviam, Prvssiam, Pomeraniam, Livoniam, et Moschoviae Tartariaeqve partem complectitur /
Alexandri Gvagnini Veronensis, equitis aurati, peditumq́ue praefecti ; cui supplementi loco, ea quae gesta sunt superiori anno, inter Serenissimum Regem Poloniae, & Magnum Ducem Moschouiae breuiter adiecta sunt ; item genealogia regum Polonorum.

Description

Main Author

Gwagnin, Alexander, 1538-1614.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Spirae : Apud Bernardvm Albinvm, 1581.

Subjects

Europe, Eastern > Europe, Eastern / Description and travel > Europe, Eastern / Description and travel / Early works to 1800.
Europe, Eastern > Europe, Eastern / History.
Woodcuts > Woodcuts / Germany > Woodcuts / Germany / 16th century.

Note

Includes index.
Signatures: A⁴ B-T⁶ V⁶(V5+W⁶) X⁶.
Many woodcut ill., chiefly images of Polish kings and Lithuanian princes (one of which also serves as t.p. vignette), and coats of arms (repeats). Two folded sheets between A1 and A2, the first a double-page woodcut of the Polish diet in session, the second a genealogy of the kings of Poland. Printer's device at colophon with initials BD. Decorated initials.
First published Cracow : Maciej Wirzbie̜ta, 1578.

Physical Description

[4], 119, [7] leaves, [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms, geneal. table, ports. ; 34 cm. (fol.)

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