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 - Petau, Denis 1583-1652 (printed by J. Streater, and are to be sold by Francis Tyton at the Three Daggers in Fleet-street, 1659)
"A geographicall description of the world" has individual dated title page and separate pagination; the register is continuous. - "To the reader" signed: R. P., who claims responsibility for the translation, the continuation to 1659, and the "geographicall description". - An additional leaf has been inserted between 4L2 and 4L3 (pp. 607-608); 4L3r and 4L4r are unnumbered; the text is continuous despite pagination. - Another edition of: Petau, Denis. Rationarium temporum. - Dionisius Petavius = Denis Petau. - Frontispiece = portrait of Petau. - Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. - The engraved map of the world is bound following the title page of "A geographicall description". - Wing (2nd ed.), P1677B. - With an errata and advertisment leaf (a1) bound at the end of quire A