Estate of John Emmerson, Melbourne, Australia

Copy of an abridged version, with an index, on 802 small octavo pages, in a black morocco elaborately gilt. Mid-17th century.

Later in the library of William Stuart (1755-1822), Archbishop of Armagh, and his son William Stuart (1798-1874), of Aldenham Abbey.

RaW 678.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.