The Historie of the World, in Five Books...
London: Walter Burre, 1634.
Complete with "The Mind of the Front" poem by Ben Jonson, dated 1614, (small dampstain on top margin). Frontispiece portrait and extra illustrated allegorical title; Typographic title with large engraved portrait of Raleighh by S. Pass. 8 double-page maps, and a few in-text woodcut charts, decorative initials and headers for each of the 5 books. Very thick folio, handsomely rebound in full brown morocco, black leather spine label, decorative blind stamping on spine and covers. London: Walter Burre, 1634. A beautiful clean copy.
"Raleigh's labours, which began with the creation, only reached to 130 B.C., the date of the conversion of Macedonia into a Roman province. He traced the rise and fall of the three great empires of Babylon, Assyria, and Macedon, and dealt especially with the most flourishing periods of Jewish, Greek, and Roman history." DNB XVI. Wing (STC) R168. Lowndes III, p. 2039. Sabin 67560n.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Language: English
Price: $6,000.00
Item #309070