Beschreibung der Burgundischen Kriegen. Und einicher anderer in der Schweitz, und sonderlich zu Bern, Um selbige Zeit vorgefallenen Merckwürdigen Begebenheiten.

With large engr. title-vignette and some head- and tailpieces, 2 woodcut initials. 6 leaves, 403, (1) pp. Small folio. Contemp. boards with spine label (slightly bumped). Bern, Franz Samuel Fätscheryn, 1743. First edition of this important source for the history of the Burgundian wars by Diebold Schilling, town scribe and historian, who died shortly after the completion of his monumental chronicle of the city of Bern. The present "Beschreibung" is part three of the manuscript which Schilling's widow sold to Zurich, and is published here for the first time unillustrated on the initiative of Johann Jakob Bodmer. Schilling relates, as an eye-witness, the events of the years 1468-1484, the wars between Charles the Bold and the Confederates which culmiated in the battles of Morat and Nancy. Of particular interest are the texts of historical songs popular at the time which he preserved to posterity. - Ms. library number on front pastedown. - Haller IV, 617; Barth 833; Brunet V, 202; cf. Wyss 135f.; Feller/Bonjour 21f. HISTORY (KULTURGESCHICHTE) ; HELVETICA: ALLGEMEIN ; HEL ;