Annales, oder historische Chronick/ der durchleuchtigisten Fürsten und Herren/ Ertzhertogen zu Oesterreich/ Habspurgischen Stammens/ fürnemlich von Rudolpho dem Ersten .. bis auff Carolum den Fünfften .. auf onkosten Conrad Dietzen von Weidenberg .. auss Lateinischer in unser Teutsche Sprach ubersetzt, jetzo von newen durchsehen, und inn Druck gegeben.

Augspurg, Johann Schultes, 1621.Folio. Contemporary limp vellum (soiled; sl. dam.). Title printed in red and black with woodcut coat of arms on verso, full-page woodcut genealogical tree of the rulers of Austria, woodcut device at the end, 2 full-page woodcut portraits of archduke Ferdinand and his spouse, and ca. 400 woodcuts in the text of emperors, kings, counts, etc. and their coats of arms. (12),469 (wrongly numbered 481),(1),(46) pp.First German edition, the first Latin edition appeared in Innsbruck in 1592. - Inportant genealogical work on the annals of the Austrian line of the Habsburg dynasty compiled by the Dutch-born librarian Gerard de Roo. He was librarian to archduke Ferdinand. The House of Habsburg is one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history, they were the ruling house of Hungary from 1526 till 1780. - (Somewhat waterstained throughout; wormholes in fly-leaves).Cf. Lipperheide I, p.195.