Automatic translation from Danish.

Nicolaus Bellus, pseudonym of Michael Caspar Lundorf (1580-1629). 'Österreichischer Lorbeerkrantz oder keyserliche Victori. Das ist : warhafftige unnd aussführliche historische Beschreibung allergedenckwürdigen Sachen und Handel [...] bey Regierung Weilandt Keyser Matthiae [...] vnd jetzt Regierender [...] Majest. Ferdinand II. [...] von dem 1617. Jahr zugetragen vnd verlauffen [...] auff ein newes ubersehen in ein richtigere und bessere Ordnung gebracht [...] in zehn Bücher abgetheilet und biss in September dieses 1626. Jahrs continuirt'. Published by Johann Theobald Schönwetter and printed in 1626 by Erasmus Kempffern in Frankfurt am Main. Illustrated with numerous copper-engraved portraits, i.a. of Chr. IV, city prospectuses, double-sided maps and battle scenes, full-page free title page with copper engraving of German-Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, title page printed in black and red with a frame of medallion portraits of actors of the Thirty Years' War, list of all illustrations in the introduction. On the free title sheet two handwritten annotations in ink - one, possibly concerning the price of the work incl. binding, dated 1627. Bound in simultaneously blind-printed full leather binding on wooden covers with genuine spine binding, identical ornamentation on front and back with stamp ornament borders and central field with the coat of arms of the Elector of the Palatinate under which text 'INSIGNIA ILLUSTRISS' COPALAT RHE, S,R, PRINC, ELECT, BAVA , DV'. Dimensions 36.5 x 24 x 9 cm.
Has age-related patina, signs of now missing book clasps, wear on binding edges, wormholes, plate p. 494 missing, some pages with small short cracks.
Corresponding editions can be found on, among others, The Royal Library in Copenhagen, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Austrian National Library in Vienna.
Michael Caspar Lundorph, German historian, author and publicist, b. and d. in Frankfurt am Main.
'Österreichischer Lorbeerkrantz', which deals with the Thirty Years' War, was first published in 1625, when the war was still in full swing, and the work was therefore issued in updated editions in 1626 and 1627. At this time, the Elector of the Palatinate was Friederich V (1596-1632), who was a major figure in the events that precipitated the war of 1618.