The key of history, or, A most methodicall abridgement of the foure chiefe monarches [sic], Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome
Subtitle: being a generall and compendious chronicle from the Flood, digested into three bookes : whereunto is added a marginall cronologie of euery Romane emperours raigne, end [sic] of all the most memorable persons and accidents : together with briefe illustrations vpon the more obscure names, places, and office ...
By: written by ... Iohn Sleidan
Edition: The second edition.
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed for William Sheares, and and [sic] are to be sould at his shop at the great south doore of St. Paules Church
Published: 1631
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Ancient History; Early works to 1800; World history; Emperors
Other titles: Most methodicall abridgement of the foure chiefe monarches.
Work titles: De quatuor summis imperiis
Notes: Added engraved t.p.

Translation (by Abraham Darcie) of Sleidanus' De quatuor summis imperiis--Cf. STC (2nd ed.) and NUC pre-1956 imprints.

Numerous errors in paging.

STC (2nd ed.) 19851