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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: G. Lathum and R. Young, 1634. Original calf binding, worn, boards detached, lacking the spine, engraved title, printed title, 32pp preface, 27pp contents, 555pp, 669pp, 26pp, 26pp, complete with the 8 double page engraved plates, some browning in places, minor worming to some edges, lacking the margin to one page, engraved title chipped and creased, dated 1634 on the colophon, the 5th edition, text in the main clean and bright, would benefit from rebinding, more images available, please contact for details . Hardcover. Fair. Small Folio.

London : Printed for G. Lathum and R. Young, 1634. 5th. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fifth edition. Thick folio, 34 x 21 cm. London: G. Lathum and R. Young, 1634 on colophon. Bound in modern brown leather. 6 raised bands. Red and green Moroccan leather spine labels. Fine binding and cover. A few light rubbing marks to leather. Additional title of Ben Johnson's poem, 'The Minde of the Front'. Engraved frontis dated Walter Burre, 1614. Typographic title with large engraved portrait vignette of Raleigh by S. Pass. The additional title, title page and final page are soiled. 8 double page maps (16 leaves) engraved by William Hole. See our pictures. Dampstaining throughout. Progressively affecting text from p. 233, 50% of text from p. 441 to end. Last 3 maps and most of chronological table affected by dampstain. Marginal worming. A few contemporary ink notations to margins. Final page lacking upper corner of page, restored. <br> Raleigh wrote, "The History of the World" while… Read More

London: Walter Burre; G. Lathum; R. Young , 1634 . Leather. Good. 13.5" by 8.5" . Not Stated. A comprehensive seventeenth-century work detailing the history of the world, by Sir Walter Raleigh. The scarce fifth edition. The first edition was published in 1614. Rebound in half vellum. With new endpapers. With an engraved, 'Minde of the Front', poem to the front of the book, a beautiful engraved title page dated 1614, a portrait illustration to the title page and six folding maps. Lacking the first map, on page 56, and the fourth map on page 218. Sir Walter Raleigh's most important and influential work. Written during his imprisonment in the Tower of London. It was originally intended to be a multi-volume set which would help educate Henry, Prince of Wales, but following the Prince's death in 1612, Raleigh had to bring the project to completion. This work details the history of the world, with a strong foundation in the Bible. Other topics listed include Ancient Greece, Alexander the… Read More

London: Printed for H. Lownes, G. Lathum and R. Young, 1628. Folio, 21.3 x 33cm, Original calif covers superimposed on new goatskin underlayment with new goatskin spine by the artisan binder, Sasha Mosalov. Original spine label preserved. 17] ff., 555 pp., [1] p., 669 pp., [1] f., [13] ff., [27] ff. Seven double page maps and views. Original frontispiece and title page repaired but with some loss; a few other pages also repaired. OCLC Number :977655483

London: Printed for H. Lownes, G. Lathum, and R. Young, 1628. Fourth Edition. Early owners' inscriptions (R. and J. Bromwich), and occasional neat marginalia; slight wear to a few page edges and scattered, minimal worming; in all a clean, sound copy. Folio; with "The Minde of the Front" poem by Ben Jonson (uncredited), engraved title page (with date of first edition, 1614), 6 (of 8) folding maps and 2 engraved battle plans. (4) frontispiece and engraved title; title page with engraved portrait; (lx, preface, contents), 1-555; 1-669, (54, "Note to Reader, tables of contents); modern full crushed brown morocco. ESTC S116303.

London: Walter Burre, 1634. hardcover. near fine. 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.<br/> <br/> "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… Read More