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.

Abstract

Dionisius Petavius = Denis Petau. Another edition of: Petau, Denis. Rationarium temporum. "To the reader" signed: R. P., who claims responsibility for the translation, the continuation to 1659, and the "geographicall description". "A geographicall description of the world" has individual dated title page and separate pagination; the register is continuous. An additional leaf has been inserted between 4L2 and 4L3 (pp. 607-608); 4L3r and 4L4r are unnumbered; the text is continuous despite pagination. Frontispiece = portrait of Petau. With an errata and advertisment leaf (a1) bound at the end of quire A. The engraved map of the world is bound following the title page of "A geographicall description". Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.