1662 World History Theatrum Historicum Chronology Marburg Christoph Helwig RARE



Christoph Helwig was an early 17th-century German chronologist known for his landmark work ‘Theatrum Historicum’. This work, first published in 1609, is an entire chronology of the history of the world beginning with Creation and the lineage of Adam. Short biographical notes and included throughout each ‘chart-like’ page. Helwig covers church history, use of astrology in pagan and religious circles, Greek, Roman, and Jewish histories, rise and fall of Turkish and Ottoman powers, importance of the Papacy, all with an extensive index through the mid-1600s. Thousands of names are included in this work most of which are featured in the year-by-year chart. An impressive and highly desirable work!



This 1662 edition includes notes and revisions by Johan Schupp.



Item number: #15700

Price: $750



HELWIG, Christoph



Christophori Helvici, V.C. Theatrum historicum et chronologicum : æqualibus denariorum, quinquagenariorum & centenariorum intervallis; cum assignatione. Imperiorum, regnorum, dynastiarum, regum, aliorumque virorum celebrium, prophetarum, theologorum, iureconsultorum, medicorum, philosophorum, oratorum, historicorum, poëtarum, hæreticorum, rabbinorum, conciliorum, synodorum, academiarum, &c.



Oxoniæ : excudebat H. Hall, impensis Ioseph: Godvvin, Ioh: Adams, & Edvard: Forrest, M.DC.LXII. [1662]



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[24], 193, [19]

References: Wing H 1413; Madan 2599

Language: Latin

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Size: ~12.5in X 8.5in (31.5cm x 21.5cm)



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