Hessian Chronica

One last historically and artistically precious look at the cities of Europe shortly before the destruction of the Thirty Years' War: a journey back in time to the 16th century with more than 600 fantastic city views

With no less than 343 illustrations from the hand of Emperor Maximilian's court poet: a late and unprinted work of universal history translated by Thomas Murner, which was preserved only in a single manuscript

A final look at the cities of Europe made just before the destruction of the Thirty Years’ War: the 1574 edition of Braun and Hogenberg’s famous collection of cityscapes from around the world

The search for a shortcut to Asia and an agonizing winter on an island in the Arctic Ocean: the fascinating and richly illustrated account by Gerrit de Veer of the three Dutch expeditions of 1594–1596

The inconceivable brutality of the peasants' wars at their own monastery gates: Abbot Jakob Murer's authentic account of the events of the peasants' uprising in the area of the Premonstratensian Weissenau Abbey in the spring of 1525

Genealogy, register of coats of arms and album amicorum or “friendship book” in one: artfully decorated princely copperplate engravings full of authentic insights into everyday life in Germany at the turn of the 17th century