VITI BERINGII FLORUS DANICUS : OTTHINIAE: IMPRESSUS À CHRISTIANO SCHRÖDERO, ANNO 1698

8vo. praefatio+593 ; Bound in full contemporary brown morocco richly gilt with the monogram IHS at the center oh both cover boards, Spine with 4 raised bands gilt. Bering was tasked with writing a general history of Denmark, a work on reignof Christian IV and a work on resent events such as the Assault on Copenhagen in 1659 and the institution of Absolutism in 1660. Neither of these were published proor to his death. His only publication was a critical work on England, Orosij Annilonis dissertalio de bello Dano-Anglico (1667), a defense of the Danish king's policy. His work on the Assault on Copenhagen, Obsidio Hafniensis, was published posthumously in 1676. His largest work, Floms Danicus, an account of Danish history in latin reaching back to 1448, was not published until 1698. Its style is inspired by that of Publius Annius Florus. Historically, it is of little interest, being a merely stylistical treatment of older sources. It was, however, praised in its own time. Few of Bering's poems have survived. They represent the transition from Bording to Thomas Kingo, who both were among his personal friends, in Danish Baroque poetry.…