Description

A rare view showing an unusual astronomical phenomena such as comets and sun dogs above Heidelberg in the early 1622. At the same time a sun halo could be seen in Switzerland, Ulm and Strassbourg. The copper engraving was published as a folding plate in a newspaper ‘Relationis Historicae’. The prints from this work, published throughout the 16th and 17th centuries are rare on the market. Narrow margins, soft folds, in a good condition.

Annalen der Physik, Band 30, 105; Jacobus Bartschius,

Himmlische Zeiterinnernde Wunder-Son-vnd Weckuhr/ Das ist: Kurtzer vnd Einfältiger/ doch in der Naturkunst gegründeter Bericht Von den Nebensonnen vnd Regenbogen : Beydes in gemein … in dem jetzlauffenden 1622. Jahr/ den 25. Januar … gesehen … / in Druck gegeben Durch Iacobum Bartschium Laub… Straßburg : Von der Heyden, 1622 etc.