1666 HISTORY of the WORLD by WALTER RALEIGH antique ILLUSTRATED w/8 MAPS English

[The History of the World]


RALEIGH, Sir Walter

 The Historie of the World, in Five Books


London: printed for Robert White, John Place and George Dawes; 1666


engraved portrait frontispiece,
additional engraved title,
letterpress title printed in red and black,

8 engraved folding maps and plates,

lacking 2 leaves (2K2-3),

small repair to title, repairs to final 2 leaves, a few small burn holes,

bookplate to the front pastedown

Full blindstamped calf, recased, new spine with raised bands and red morocco title label, marbled endpapers, red edges

-ESTC R182348-

Folio: 9 1/4 by 13 1/4"

Text in English
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"The success of Raleigh’s History can perhaps be explained by the very fact that it is not a work of history in the academic sense but a political tract of immediate applicability.
Its author embodied all the glories of the reign of Elizabeth I, which at the time of publication had already begun to be transfigured into a golden age Raleigh can be taken as the epitome of the Elizabethan idea of courtier and politician, sailor and explorer, writer and poet.
He was among the first Englishmen to envisage clearly that the Americas should be the principal goal of English overseas expansion.
The reversal of Elizabeth’s policy by James I encompassed Raleigh’s ruin.
He finally fell a victim to James’s pro-Spanish inclinations, and the last Elizabethan died by the executioner’s axe" (PMM 117).
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