Rare WALTER RALEIGH 1698 HISTORY WORLD Abridgment ECHARD Five Books

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Rare WALTER RALEIGH 1698 HISTORY WORLD Abridgment ECHARD Five Books:
$171.89

ANABRIDGMENTOFSir Walter Raleigh\'sHISTORY of the WORLDIn Five BOOKS1. From the Creation to Abraham2. From Abraham to the Destruction of theTemple of Solomon3. From the Destruction of Jerusalem to Philipof Macedon4. From Philip of Macedon to the Race of Antigonus5. From the Establishment of Alexander untilthe Conquest of Asia and Macedon by theRomans.Wherein the particular Chapter and Paragraphs aresuccinctly Abridg\'d according to his own Methodin the larger which is AddedHis Premonition to for Mat. Gillyflower, and Sold by Andrew Bellat the Cross-Keys and Bible in Cornhill near Stocks-Market.1698Bound (? rebound) in full leather with raised bands to spine. Measuring approx 20cm x 12.5cm x 4cm. As can be seen from the photos the front and rear boards are cracked to spine edges. The spine is cracked and chipped (see photos). Boards are chipped and bumped to edges (little more so to rear). Few dark marks. Internally there are more recent endpapers to front and rear. The front fixed endpaper has chipped patch where a bookplate may have been removed. Free endpaper has several ink annotations, and there are also several pencil and ink marks to rear and fixed endpapers. Damp stained throughout in varying degrees, and causing the leaves to become a little soft. Outer page edges are bumped, and several leaves are tatty to edges. Cracking/cracked in places and a small section of leaves are gently detaching. There are occasional worm holes and tiny runs. One page has been trimmed (affecting page number). Thumbed and grubby with some creases. In readable condition
There is a portrait woodcut frontispiece. An abridgement ofRaleigh\'s famous workBy LAURENCE ECHARDFrontispiece, title page, Publishers Advert (4 leaves), 48 leaves p[1]-p415p343 misnumbered p437