1677 HISTORY of the WORLD by WALTER RALEIGH antique ILLUSTRATED w/8 MAPS English

Raleigh (Walter)

The History of the World, in five books...,
Whereunto is added in this edition the Life and Tryal of the Author


London: Printed for Robert White, T. Basset, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, G. Dawes and T. Sawbridge; 1677


'The Mind of the Front' leaf present facing additional engraved title with imprint dated 1676,

letterpress title in red and black,

engraved portrait plate,

6 double-page engraved maps and 2 double-page engraved battle plans,

errors in pagination,

old ink Birmingham library stamp to additional title,

 a few small tears,

some marginal browning and occasional spotting,

later endpapers with library label to upper pastedown bearing 'sold by order of Council' ink stamp,

late 19th/early 20th-century cloth gilt,

-Wing R167-

Folio: 9.5 by 14.5"

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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