16mo (117 x 76 mm). Roman and italic types. (Some light soiling and staining, a few short marginal tears.) Later vellum, tan morocco lettering-piece gilt (recased, endpapers renewed). Provenance: Collegus Societatis JEW Lucerne (inscription 1673 on title-page). 

World chronicle commencing with the Creation, first published in 1537 and updated by Philipp Melanchthon and Caspar Peucer in later editions to include the Lutheran perspective. This edition ascribes the invention of printing to Fust and Schoeffer at Mainz in 1450 (p.548), and the discovery of the New World to Columbus and Vespucci in 1492 (p.560). See Alden & Landis 554/12. VERY RARE: According to online records, only one other copy of this edition has appeared on the market at auction; OCLC traces only one copy at the Biblioteca Comunale di Trento in Rome.