Search Results: the history of the world in by sir walter ralegh

Archibald Constable & Co., 1820. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1820. New Edition. 598 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Half bound brown leather with marbled paper covered boards. Volume V. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to title page and rear free endpaper. Water staining to pages throughout. Thumb-marking present. Light brown staining to pages throughout. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to hinges and gutters, leaving netting exposed. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Notable loss to spine. Large splits to spine. Some scuffing to boards. Tearing to edges. Noticeable peeling leather to spine and corners.

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 Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Benj. Tooke Etc, 1687. Whereunto is added in this edition, the life and tryal of the author. Hinges cracked and chipped. Corners heavily bumped, pockmarks and scratches to boards. spine leather cracked with some minor loss to ends, title faded. Bookplate to front pastedown, front endpapers a little loose, creased and chipped due to front gutter being cracked. Some ink notations to margins of preface pages. Content clean and sturdy, text and maps crisp and bright.. Full Leather. Good. Folio.

London:: Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Benj. Tooke, et al.,, 1687.. Reprint.. Hardcover. Very Good indeed. The poem, 'The Mind of the Front' is present and precedes the frontis and title page, which are followed by the Preface xxxii, and the Contents 24pp. // Then follows 'The Life of the Valiant and Noble Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight. With his Tryal at Winchester'; printed for George Dawes et al, Third Edition, 1687, and consisting of the portrait frontis, the title page, and the 41pp of text. // These are followed by the 813pp of the main work; [2]pp 'To the Reader'; [26]pp Chronological Table; and [16]pp Alphabetical Table of Contents. This volume, mighty as it is, written while Raleigh was imprisoned in the Tower of London, 'using a wide array of sources in six languages' (Wikipedia), and first published in 1614, takes us up only to the Roman era: it was conceived as being but the 'First Part' - another two projected volumes were never written. // Included in the main work are 2 genealogical… Read More

London : Printed by William Iaggard [, William Stansby, and Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crane, 1621. 3rd. Hardcover. Good. Folio, 33 x 22 cm. 3rd ed. Printed by William Jaggard for Walter Burre, 1621. Bound in full contemporary calf. 7 spine compartments. Gilt ruled. Some rubbing / minor wear to cover. Solid binding. Engraved portrait of Raleigh on title. Collated: [66], 184, 181-555, [1], 510, 515-669, [55] pages, [5] plates: genealogical tables (woodcuts), maps. Minor worming through first 60 pages. Some damp staining to upper margin of pages affecting some text. Armorial book plate of William Durning Hole. <br> Raleigh wrote, "The History of the World" while imprisoned by James I in the tower of London. It was initially intended to serve as an educational tool for Henry, Prince of Wales. Henry died in 1612, forcing Raleigh to bring the project to conclusion. Raleigh was only able to complete the… Read More