Historien und Bericht Von dem Großfürstenthumb Muschkow by Petrus Petrejus ,Petrum Jansonium, Johann Wilhelm Neumair von Ramsla - 1620: nnnn

Part one
Gothic letter. Charming engraved architectural t-p with standing figures of the emperor and patriarch of Russia, burning lamps, and Russian weapons, very slightly trimmed at front. Woodcut initials, headpieces, and typographical ornaments. Good first edition of a most influential C17 account of the duchy of Muscovy and the Russian provinces. Petrus Petreius (Pers Persson) (1570-1620) was a Swedish diplomat and intelligencer from Uppsala, who worked for several years in Russia in the early C17 century. Petreius first published his account in Swedish, as Regni Muschowitici Sciographia (Stockholm, 1615), marking a new attitude towards the perception of Russians in Sweden. The Sciographia was translated into German and published in Leipzig in 1620, with additional dedications and an appendix. The six parts are devoted to the cities and provinces, history (from Rurik to 1612), political ceremonies, warfare, customs, and religious rites of Russia and its people. Most of the second part is concerned with the period spanning the reign of Boris Godunov and the start of the Romanov rule. Petreius relied heavily, especially for the section on the False Dimitris, on the yet unpublished Latin eyewitness account by Konrad Bussow. He interspersed it with personal observations based on direct experience, like the sight of the corpses of Fyodor II Borisovich and his mother bearing the imprint of the ropes which strangled them. Historien und Bericht is of fundamental importance for early modern European first-hand knowledge of Russian culture. Petreius adapted for the German language words relating to Russian society, making them more accessible to his new readers by avoiding, unlike in the Swedish original, Russian borrowings. In his account, the complex meaning of the term Bojar is simplified to the title of nobleman ( Adel or Herr ), and keysare , the same term used to address the German Holy Roman Emperors, appears as a translation of czar in the reported speeches of Russian people.
695 pages (plus 13)

Part two

Published:Gedrucket zu Hamburg, bey Paul Langen, in verlegung Michael Herings, im Jahr 1619.. 1619

Itinerarium oder auszführlicher Bericht, welcher gestalt Ihre Königl. Mayest. von Schweden vnlengest Abgesandter an die ... Könige, von Groβ Britannien vnd Dennemarcken ... Niederlanden, Herr Johan Skytte auβ Schweden nach Dennemarcken, von dannen nach Hollandt, endlichen nach Engellandt verreiset ... Neben gründlicher Beschreibung der Orthen, Städt vnd Flecken, was in denselben sonderlich zu sehen ... Neben drey andern newen Tractätlein: Das Eine ist ein Process, welcher so wol bey I. K. May. von Schweden an den Groβfürsten in Muscow gesandten Audientz am 3. Maiij ... am 8. Junij gehalten worden. Das Ander ... 28. Junij zu Stockholm ... Das Dritte ist von der Rüssen oder Moscowiter Religion, Ceremonien, Gesetzen, Policey, und Kriegeshandel, wie auch von des Landes beschaffenheit. In Druck verfertiget, durch Petrum Jansonium.

Part three
Author: Johann Wilhelm Neumair von Ramsla
"Des" durchlauchtigen ... Herrn Johann Ernsten des Jüngern, Hertzogen zu ...
enthält eine Kupferstich
In Druck verfertiget, durch Justum Jansonium.

Part four

Authors: Johann Wilhelm Neumair von Ramsla
Title: Bellum Cypricum Oder Beschreibung des Krieges, welchen im Jahr Christi 1570. 71. und 72. der Grosstürck Selim wider die Venetianer wegen des Königreichs Cypren geführet, Darinn neben vielen wichtigen Rathschlägen, Discursen und bedencken, auch bey nahe alles zu befinden, was eigentlich in einem Kriege zu Wasser und Land, insonderheit aber bestürm-und beschützung fester Städt und Orth allenthalben vorzulauffen pflegt. Language: German
Publisher: Justus Janssonius for Henning Gross the younger Publication place: Leipzig
Publication year: 1621