29. Ralegh ( Sir Walter) The History of the World...the Eleventh Edition, printed from a Copy revis’d by Himself, 2 vol., 8 double-page maps, lacks the portrait frontispiece, titles in red and black, ownership entry on fly-leaf of J. Periam, 1741, marginal notes in his hand, pencil notes in a later hand, little marked, contemporary panelled calf, little rubbed, vol. I rear hinge cracking, vol. II free endpaper loose, folio, G. Conyers, &c., 1736.
est. £250 – £350
The notes include, at the end of Oldys’ Life:
‘Ralegh & Socrates, two saints divine
Who died alike, in Heav’n alike shall shine.
London with Athens then compar’s may be,
They boast a Socrates, a Ralegh we. J.P.’