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The surveye of the vvorld, or Situation of the earth, so muche as is inhabited

Translation of: Dionysius Periegetes' De situ orbis.
Colophon: Imprinted at London by Henry Bynneman, dvvelling in Knight-Riders Streete, at the signe of the Mermayde. Anno. 1572. And are to be sold at his shop at the northwest dore of Poules…

The history of the vvorld

"To the reader" signed: R.P., who claims responsibility for the translation, the continuation to 1659, and the "geographicall description."

"A geographicall description of the world" has individual dated title page and separate pagination; the…