The historie of the world : in five books ... / by Sir Walter Raleigh, knight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (67 unnumbered pages, 1143 id est 1139 pages, 58 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Robert White, John Place, and George Dawes, and are to be sold by George Dawes at his shop ..., MDCLXVI [1666]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

(from t.p.) 1. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the Creation unto Abraham

2. Of the times from the birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Solomon

3. From the destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon

4. From the reign of Philip of Macedon to the establishing of that kingdom in the race of Antigonus

5. From the settled rule of Alexanders successors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon.

Notes:

Illustrated added t.p. ; engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh.

Ben Johnson's stanzas "The minde of the front": pages [1]

Includes indexes.

Numerous errors in paging.

Reproduction of original in the Emanuel College Library, Cambridge University.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1512:20) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing R164.

OCLC:

12279418

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.