The history of the vvorld: or, An account of time. Compiled by the learned Dionisius Petavius : And continued by others, to the year of our Lord, 1659. Together with a geographicall description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.

Author/creator Petau, Denis
Other author R. P.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : printed by J. Streater, and are to be sold by Francis Tyton at the Three Daggers in Fleet-street, MDCLIX. [1659]
Description[10], 608, [1], 609, [1], 610, [36], 154, [6] p., [2] leaves of plates : port., map (folded)
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Uniform titleRationarium temporum. English
Variant title Account of time.
Variant title Geographicall description of the world.
Variant title History of the world.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteDionisius Petavius = Denis Petau.
General noteAnother edition of: Petau, Denis. Rationarium temporum.
General note"To the reader" signed: R. P., who claims responsibility for the translation, the continuation to 1659, and the "geographicall description".
General note"A geographicall description of the world" has individual dated title page and separate pagination; the register is continuous.
General noteAn additional leaf has been inserted between 4L2 and 4L3 (pp. 607-608); 4L3r and 4L4r are unnumbered; the text is continuous despite pagination.
General noteFrontispiece = portrait of Petau.
General noteWith an errata and advertisment leaf (a1) bound at the end of quire A.
General noteThe engraved map of the world is bound following the title page of "A geographicall description".
General noteReproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
References Wing (2nd ed.) P1677B.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1934:2)
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