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[Kenneth Karmiole]

BALTIC STUDIES

 

HENNING, SALOMON

 

LIFFLENDISCHE CHURLENDISCHE CHRONICA: was sich vom JahrChristi 1551 biss auff 1590 in den Langwierigen Moscowiterischen und AndernKriegen....

 

Leipzig: [Zacarium Barwaldt]. 1594.

 

Folio.  ff.(12),83,(1).  with the final blankleaf.  Printer's name on the colophon onthe final printed leaf.  Title printed inred & black with a large woodcut device. 19th century plain vellum spine over marbled boards.  A very nice clean copy.

 

$1000

 

An important historical chronicle for the years 1551-1590covering the Baltic areas of Lithuania, Livonia and Couland (a part ofLatvia).  It was first printed in 1590 inRostock (extremely rare) and then our second edition in 1594, which is alsoquite scarce.  There is only 1 modernauction record in 2006 for 1150 Euros. The Baltic Studies Center published an English translation in 1992titled "Salomon Henning's Chronicle of Courland and Livonia".  VD 16 H1937.