NO RESERVE World.- Heylyn (Peter) Mikrokosmos [graece]. A Little Description of the Great World, third edition, title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, folding table, table (2¶1-2*2) misbound at end, title creased, ink names to rear endpapers, contemporary calf, chip to lower joint, light marking, a very good, clean copy, [STC 13278; Sabin 31636], small 4to, Oxford, 1627.

⁂ One of many quarto and folio editions of this popular early geography, the most commonly used source of information about the rest of the world used in England at the time. Heylyn (1600-62) , a "bluster-master" according to his enemy John Hacket, annoyed King James I by saying in the first edition of this work that 'France is the greater and more famous Kingdom than England'; 'is' was a misprint for 'was' he claimed, and the passage referred to the time of Edward III, but he wisely removed it from later editions.

Provenance: William ?Prime; William James Canter (ink inscriptions).