Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
The history of the world : the second part, in six books: being a continuation of the famous history of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight: beginning where he left; viz. at the end of the Macedonian kingdom, and deduced to these later-times: that is, from the year of the world 3806. or, 160 years before Christ till the end of the year 1640. after Christ: by Alexander Ross. Wherein the most remarkable passages of those times, (both ecclesiasticall and civill) in the greatest states, empires, and kingdomes, are represented: together with a chronologie of those times, &c. and an alphabeticall-table by the author
Other Name
Second part of the universall history of the world (Alternate title)
Brief chronology of the principal passages faln out in the world: from the Macedonian kingdom till the last ten years: divided into 180 decades, containing 1800 years (Alternate title)
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Printed for John Saywell, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Greyhound in little-Britain without Aldersgate
Place
Date
1652
Production date notes
M: DC. LII.
Physical Description
26 unnumbered pages, 192, 221-647 pages, 124 unnumbered pages ; 33 cm
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Provenance Details
Inscribed on second flyleaf: Mr. Vincent Prodheim (?)
Public Access Text
Collection Type
Reserve Collection - Outsize
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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