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, POETARUM, HAERETICORUM, RABBINORUM, CONCILIORUM, SYNODORUM, ACADEMIARUM, &C. ITEMQUE USITATARUM EPOCHARUM, ITA DIGESTUM, UT UNIVERSA TEMPORUM ET HISTORIARUM SERIES A PRIMO MUNDI EXORDIO AD ANNUM M.DC.L. QUASI IN SPECULO VIDERI POSSIT
Oxford, England: Exudebat H. Hall, Impensis Ioseph : Godwin, Ioh : Adams, & Eduard : Forrest, 1651. Fifth Edition. Leather-bound. Quarto, 11.5 in. x 8 in., pp. [18], 1-185, [19], (index). Text in Latin. Contemporary full calf with blind rule to front and back. Five raised bands to spine. Publisher's red top edges. Rubbing to extremities with cracking to top inch and bottom inch of gutters. Front top corner showing. Boards slightly warped. Red and black ink to title page. Previous owner's armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Printer's waste paper copy bound in as front and rear endpapers. Open tear to 20% of rear endpaper. A touch of staining along bottom edge, but pages are generally clean and supple. Good. Item #100009
Armorial bookplate is that of W.T.R. Powell (possibly William Thomas Rowland Powell, 1814-1878, a leader in the of the County of Cardigan).
Christoph Helwig, 1581-1617 was a German chronologist and historian, theologian and linguist. This work, first published in 1609, offers an chronology of history beginning with Creation and the creation of Adam. Biographical notes to "chart-like" page. Helwig covers church history, use of astrology in pagan and religious circles, Greek, Roman, and Jewish histories, the churn of Turkish and Ottoman power, importance of the Papacy, and the book provides an extensive index.
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