Die Jahr Blum
Subtitle: welch da begreifft v[n]d in sich helt fast alle Iahren dieser Welt. Namhafft Persone[n], Stedt vnd Lant hieraus dir werden mit bekant. In guter Ordnung (auch mit Fleis gantz kurtz gefast, und Reime[n] weis vil mercklich Thaten vnd Geschicht
By: durch Matthis Quaden zugericht
Publisher: In Verlegung Johan Bussemechers
Published: 1595
Place of publication: Cologne]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: World history; Discovery and exploration; Maps; Poetry; Italian
Notes: Place of publication supplied by Baginsky and Alden.

Another edition of this, printed is Strasbourg in the same year, lacks the coat of arms on p. [4] and the map on p. [8] and has an entirely different title page transcription.

Text entirely in verse, including the title page.

Text in German with p. [74-79] in Latin.

Title page fully engraved.

Page [49], for the date for 1497, mentions Amerigo Vespucci and the discovery of America.

Page [8] includes an engraved map, by Matthias Quad, which depicts the continents of  Europe, Asia, and Africa and, most notably, the New World as the northernmost continent situated above the island of Greenland.

Signatures: A-K⁴ (K4 verso blank) (K3 missigned L3)

Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.

Baginsky, P. German works relating to America, 96.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 595/55.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Brooker and Wroth Funds.