– The Khmelnytsky Uprising –
Joachim Pastorius. Historiae Polonae plenioris partes duae. Ejusdemque dissertatio philologica de originibus Sarmaticis. Part 1. Dantisci (Gdańsk) 1685. Published by Simon Beckenstein, 8°, frontispiece (copperplate engraving), pp. 6, 17–318, [10], paperbound.
E.XXIV, 114. The first part of the history of Poland during the reigns of Władysław IV and Jan Kazimierz, written by Joachim Pastorius de Hirtenberg (1611–1681), historian, poet, secretary to King Władysław IV, and professor at the Academic Gymnasium in Gdańsk. The volume on offer primarily contains an account of events from the period of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. At the outbreak of the uprising, Pastorius was living in Volhynia as the family physician of the Sieniut family; from there, fleeing the war, he went to Gdańsk. From the library of the Franciscan monastery in Hall in Tirol (stamps). On the frontispiece is a portrait of the author, signed “N. Lang.” Call numbers and labels. The second title page (which opens Volume 1 after the preface) and pages 1–16 are missing. In good condition.
