M. DC. LXVI. Zodiacus Mercurialis das ist: Jährige europaeische Welt-Chronick
Subtitle: so in einem wohl-verfasseten kurtzem Begriffe, alle merckwürdigste Begebenheiten vorbildet, welche sich im verschienenen und zu ruckgelegten 1666sten Wunder-Jahre, durch alle und einzälige Reiche dess Erdbodens zugetragen haben; mit nothdürfftigen schönen Kupffern, deutlichen Marginalien, und einem vollständigen Register gezieret
By: Verabfassets M. Johannes Praetorius, Zetlinga-Palaeo-Marchita, P.L.C. Mit Chur-Fürstl. sächsischer Freyheit
Publisher: Verlegts Johann Hoffmann Kunsthändler.
Published: 1667
Place of publication: Nuremberg]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Slavery; Slaves; Quakers; Tobacco; History
Other titles: Zodiacus Mercurialis.; Jährige europäische Welt-Chronick.
Notes: Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

Place of publication supplied by the VD17.

A chronicle of the year 1666.

Includes various American references including an account of the annexation of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam [New York City], an account of Quakers banished to Jamaica (p. 67), the English expedition to Hudson's Bay (p. 72), the shipping of slaves to Barbados (p. 73), and an account of the silver fleet which sailed from New Spain, which included tobacco grown in Virginia (p. 154-155)

Signatures: A⁴ (-A4) (A1 verso blank) B-Z⁴

Includes index.

Engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.