Author: Krantz Albert, 1450 - 1517
Title: Rerum Germanicarum historici clariss. Saxonia. De Saxonicae gentis vetusta origine, longinquis expeditionibus susceptis, [et] bellis domi pro libertate diu fortiter[que] gestis, denuo & quidem accuratius emendatiusque quam ante edita.
Bound with: Krantz, Albert. Viri in Theologia et Ivre Pontificio Celeberrimi, Historicique clarissimi, Wandalia. De wandalorum vera origine, variis gentibus, crebris è patria migrationibus, regnis item, quorum vel autores vel euerfores fuerunt. Cum indice locupletiss. Adiecta est appendicis instar, Polonici regni, & Prussiæ, tum regiæ tum ducalis descriptio, nunquam antehac visa.
Bound with: Krantz, Albert. Poloniae gentisque et reipublicae Polonicae descriptionis libri duo: Quorum prior Poloniae & vicinarum regionum descriptionem, hominum mores, victum & ingenium: alter reipublicae administrandae formam complectitur.
Title in English: Belonging to the Famous Germanic Historian. Saxony. On the Ancient Origin of the Saxony Tribe, Their Distant Travels, [and] Wars at Home, Long and Bravely Fought for Freedom, Published Anew and More Thorough and Correct Than Previously.
Bound with: Of the Man Most Renowned in Theology and Pontifical Law and Famous Historian, Vandalia. On the True Origin of Vandals, the Various Peoples, Frequent Migrations from Their Homeland, and the Governments Whose Founders or […] They Were. with an Extensive Index. An Added Worthy Appendix with a Description of the Polish Kingdom and Prussia, Both the Duke and the Kingdom, Never Before Seen.
Bound with: Two Books Describing Polish People and the Republic of Poland: The First Encompasses the Description of Poland and Neighbouring Areas, the Customs, Diet, and Ways of the People: the Second Encompasses the Form of Administration of the Republic.
Francofurti: ex officina typographica Andreae Wecheli, 1575; 2°.
Binding: contemporary binding.
This is a collection of three books published in 1575 in Frankfurt. The work on the political and social order of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, Two Books Describing Polish People and the Republic of Poland by Marcin Kromer (1512–1589), a Polish historian, Bishop of Warmia, and secretary to the Ruler of Poland and Lithuania Sigismund Augustus, is bound with two historiographic works by the German historian Albert Krantz Saxony (Alberti Krantzii, rerum Germanicarum historici clariss. Saxonia) and Vandalia (A. Krantzii, viri in theologia et iure pontificio celeberrimi, historicique clarissimi, Wandalia).
Reference: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books". Museum and Collector - 7. Vilnius: National Museum of Lithuania, 2018, p. 400.
Published: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books". Museum and Collector - 7. Vilnius: National Museum of Lithuania, 2018, p. 400-401.