A very rare edition of an interesting and fascinating world history written by the Celestine monk Jean Le Jars, which traces a chronicle of world events from the biblical creation to about 1503, and continued by Humbert Vellay on the last nine pages up to about 1520.

After examining the ancient Semitic period, as well as the classical Greek and Roman periods, the work focuses primarily on European history from the founding of the Holy Roman Empire. Chapters on India, Persia, and Africa are included in the early biblical sections. There were apparently three separate editions of this work containing the symbols of Le Fèvre, Kerver, or Conrad Resch within the elaborate woodcut title, and Le Fèvre's edition appears to be the rarest, as Renouard-Moreau omits any mention of his symbol (Renouard 600 and 602), which appears in our copy, citing only the symbols of Kerver and Conrad Resch.
The large woodcut on f. [8]v is a very attractive representation: a beautiful impression of the creation of the world, showing a tripartite God from whom emanate three stages of creation, the kingdom of the angels, the sun, moon and stars, and finally humanity holding a mirror emerging from the earth. The three kingdoms are surrounded by a globe and a field of clouds. The privilege on the back of the title is dated 11 July 1521, and Jean Kerver was only active in 1521-22.