The historie of the world
Subtitle: in five bookes
By: by Sir Walter Ralegh.
Publisher: Printed for H. Lownes, G. Lathum, and R. Young
Published: 1628
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1332
Subjects: History, Ancient.
Notes: Engraved t.p. of the 1st ed. of 1614 added.

Imprint from colophon, p. (54) (4th group).

Paging irregular: numbers 181-184 (2nd group)repeated in pagination; numbers 511-514 (3rd group) omitted in pagination. Pages 296, 297, 299, 308, 448 (3rd group) numbered 496, 397, 399, 408, 484 respectively.

Part 1 of a projected work of 3 parts.--Cf. Dict. of Nat. Biog.

"A chronologicall table": p. (3)-(28) (4th group).
Table of contents: title: 1. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the creation unto Abraham; title: 2. Of the times from the birth of Abraham, to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon; title: 3. From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon; title: 4. From the reigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that kingdome, in the race of Antigonus; title: 5. From the settled rule of Alexanders successors in theEast, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon.