Hundert-Jähriges angedencken, das schnelle Kriegsglück des Schwedischen Heldens u. Königs Gustavi Adolphi in Eroberung aller dieser allhier beygefügter u. in Kupffer gestochnen Städte u. Plätze in vor- u. Hinter-Pommern, Mecklenburg in der ueber-Mittle, neu u. Alten Brandenburgermarck, an der Oder, Havel u. Elb Strom in gleichen in Sachsen, Chüringen, Francke, Pfaltz, am Mayn, Neckar u. Rheinstrom welche sich Ao. 1630 u. 1631 alle theils durch Accord theils durch Sturm seinem siegenden Schwerde ergeben müssen Elias Baeck A.H. fecit et excudit

Engraved print shows twelve rows of thumbnail size images of 103 German cities and towns captured by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in campaigns between 1630 and 1632 during the Thirty Years War. Published on the hundredth anniversary of the death of Gustavus Adolphus in the Battle of Lützen in 1632.
Title from caption at top of print on either side of the medallion portrait of Gustavus Adolphus.
Verse of eight lines in German, four lines each on either side of final row of four thumbnail engravings.
Reference copy in LOT 4601, no. 246.
Illustration in: Hauslab Album, plate 246.
Original album; Purchase; 1950.
Formerly: PR13 CN1950:R01. Originals were housed in blind-tooled morocco album 11 x 17 in. Original binding in P&P Suppl. Archives.