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Lot 798

RALEIGH, SIR WALTER: 'THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD'

printed for R. Best and Samuel Cartwright, London 1652, tooled brown leather bound with restored spine, pencil and ink annotations inside board and retaining fold-out maps and illustrations to the text

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Estimate: £300 - £500
Hammer price: £380
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

This volume has a restored spine and general wear to the binding. Internally the pages are foxed and stained.

Decorative title page has been cut from margins and pasted to a new sheet.

Plates are

P. 56/7 The great desert of Arabia

P. 78 Elves or Sol family tree

P.108/9 India map

P. 152/3 Caspian map

P.218/9 land of Moses map

P. 350/1 ‘The desert Arabia’ map - nb inserted upside down

P. 380 atla family tree

P.485 - errata printed as 485 should be 475 (book 2)

P. 270/1 book 5 - syracusa map

P. 296/397/498/399/300/301 errata should be printed 296-301

P. 386/7 Roman camp

P. 388/9 Roman camp

P. 472/37 printing errata

Chronological table at end 26 pages

Alphabetical table after 

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