Kongl: May:tz af Swerige Nådigste. Charles XII (King of Sweden)

Skydde-och Försakringz-Breff För samptl: Inbyggiarne i Ryszland.

Single 4to sheet folded to 8pp. [213 x 164 mm]. Unopened, uncut and unbound.
Narva: Johan Köhler, 1700.

As new.

A proclamation signed at the end "Carolus" and dated Narva, 3 December - two weeks after the battle that saw Charles's 8,000 Swedish troops defeat the 37,000 strong force of Peter the Great. The event marked the start of Sweden's brief ascendancy as the major power of northern Europe. Copies are recorded at the British Library and in the Royal Library at Stockholm.

Stock no. ebc7709