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London: G. Lathum and R. Young, 1634. Original calf binding, worn, boards detached, lacking the spine, engraved title, printed title, 32pp preface, 27pp contents, 555pp, 669pp, 26pp, 26pp, complete with the 8 double page engraved plates, some browning in places, minor worming to some edges, lacking the margin to one page, engraved title chipped and creased, dated 1634 on the colophon, the 5th edition, text in the main clean and bright, would benefit from rebinding, more images available, please contact for details . Hardcover. Fair. Small Folio.

London, Printed for Robert White, John Place, and George Dawes,, 1666.. 1666 Folio. [68], 1143, [53] p. Mind of the Front., engraved portrait, engraved frontispiece (lower corner with loss to the blank margin, nowhere near the printed area), eight folding maps, title page printed in red and black. Contemporary blind panelled calf with an older reback, corners show a little wear. Spine with raised bands and a contrasting label. Lower corner of leaves at the beginning of the volume dampstained but this rapidly fades then disappears. Internally clean and tight except for the dampstains and the old endpapers preserved. A sound copy with the maps in better than average state.

London: Printed for H. Lownes, G. Lathum, and R. Young, 1628. Fourth Edition. Early owners' inscriptions (R. and J. Bromwich), and occasional neat marginalia; slight wear to a few page edges and scattered, minimal worming; in all a clean, sound copy. Folio; with "The Minde of the Front" poem by Ben Jonson (uncredited), engraved title page (with date of first edition, 1614), 6 (of 8) folding maps and 2 engraved battle plans. (4) frontispiece and engraved title; title page with engraved portrait; (lx, preface, contents), 1-555; 1-669, (54, "Note to Reader, tables of contents); modern full crushed brown morocco. ESTC S116303.

London: Walter Burre, 1634. hardcover. near fine. Complete with "The Mind of the Front" poem by Ben Jonson, dated 1614, (small dampstain on top margin). Frontispiece portrait and extra illustrated allegorical title; Typographic title with large engraved portrait of Raleighh by S. Pass. 8 double-page maps, and a few in-text woodcut charts, decorative initials and headers for each of the 5 books. Very thick folio, handsomely rebound in full brown morocco, black leather spine label, decorative blind stamping on spine and covers. London: Walter Burre, 1634. A beautiful clean copy.<br/> <br/> "Raleigh's labours, which began with the creation, only reached to 130 B.C., the date of the conversion of Macedonia into a Roman province. He traced the rise and fall of the three great empires of Babylon, Assyria, and Macedon, and dealt especially with the most flourishing periods of Jewish, Greek, and Roman history." DNB XVI. Wing (STC) R168. Lowndes III, p. 2039. Sabin… Read More