Marci Zuerii Boxhornii Historia universalis sacra et profana, a Christo nato ad annum usque MDCL
Subtitle: In qua illustrium gentium ac principum origines, res gestae, variae mutationes in ecclesia et republica, aliaque ex variis, etiam hactenus ineditis, monumentis traduntur
Contributors: Heinsius, Daniel, 1580-1655; Chatsworth; Cavendish, H.
Publisher: ex officinâ Petri Leffen
Published: 1652
Place of publication: Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 1072
Subjects: World history; Church history; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Historia universalis sacra et profana, a Christo nato ad annum usque MDCL.
Notes: Roman numerals on title page and divisional title page printed with the C and backwards C enclosing the I.

Includes some discussion of explorations by Columbus, Magellan and others.

Signatures: *-**⁴ A-6T⁴ (A1, 6T4 versos blank) a-s⁴ (a1, o2 versos blank)

Errors in paging: p. 3, 3rd count, misnumbered 1.

Errata: p. [16], 1st count.

Index: p. [2-37] at end, 4th count.

Text and index of work printed in Latin and Greek within single rule border.

Title page and poem to author by Daniel Heinsius on p. [8], 1st count printed in red and black; woodcut vignette on title page; head pieces; initials.

"Caroli V. et sequentium imperatorvm tempora, ac res gestae, usque ad annum MDCL": p. [1]-107, 3rd count, has divisional title page.

European Americana 652/39.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Chatsworth: armorial bookplate with shelfmark on front pastedown; H. Cavendish: bookstamp on verso of title page.