The history of the vvorld

The history of the vvorld

Full title: The history of the vvorld: or, an account of time. Compiled by the learned Dionisius Petavius. And continued by others, to the year of our Lord, 1659. Together with a geographicall description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.

Petau, Denis, 1583-1652

London: printed by J. Streater, and are to be sold by Francis Tyton at the Three Daggers in Fleet-street

MDCLIX [1659]

[8], 608, [1], 609, [1], 610, [36], 154, [6] pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 28 cm. (fol.)

"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 register is continuous.

An additional leaf has been inserted between 4L2 and 4L3 (p. 607-608); 4L3r and 4L4r are unnumbered; the text is continuous despite pagination.

Frontispiece = portrait of Petau.

With an errata and advertisment leaf (a1) bound at the end of quire A.

Gift of Daniel Woolf.

Library copy has repairs to the title page and frontispiece.

Library copy is lacking the world map following the title page of "A geographicall description."

English

Dated 1659 .P48

Wing (2nd ed.), P1677c

ESTC (BL Web Catalogue), R17421