The post of the vvorld : VVherein is contayned the antiquities and originall of the most famous cities in Europe. With their trade and traficke. With their wayes and distance of myles, from country to country. With the true and perfect knowledge of their coynes, the places of their mynts: with al their martes and fayres. And the raignes of all the kinges of England. A booke right necessary and profitable, for all sortes of persons, the like before this tyme not imprinted.
- Verstegan, Richard, approximately 1550-1640
- Date:
- 1576
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About this work
Also known as
Post of the world
Post of the world.
Post for diuers partes of the world.
Post for divers partes of the world.
Publication/Creation
Imprinted at London : By Thomas East, 1576.
Physical description
24 unnumbered pages, 112 pages
Contributors
Notes
Based on an untraced German original.
"The post for diuers partes of the world .. published by Richard Rowlands [i.e. Richard Verstegan]" has separate dated title page.
Copies lacking the first section (*-2*⁴, containing an almanac with saints' days) may have been sold as such.
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Lacking the first section.
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 21360.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 394:12) s1999 miun s