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EARLY DOCUMENTS OF WORLD HISTORY. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. This collection combines early English perspectives on world history with documentation of Parliament records, royal decrees and military documents that reveal the delicate balance of Church and State in early English government. For social historians, almanacs and calendars offer insight into daily life of common citizens. This exhaustively complete series presents a thorough picture of history through the English Civil War. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ The key of history, or, A most methodicall abridgement of the foure chiefe monarches [sic], Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome being a generall and compendious chronicle from the Flood De quatuor summis imperiis. Most methodicall abridgement of the foure chiefe monarches. Sleidanus, Johannes, 1506-1556. [Edition statement:] The second edition. Added engraved t.p. Translation (by Abraham Darcie) of Sleidanus' De quatuor summis imperiis--Cf. STC (2nd ed.) and NUC pre-1956 imprints. Numerous errors in paging. [31], 377 p. London: Printed for William Sheares, and and [sic] are to be sould at his shop at the great south doore of St. Paules Church, STC (2nd ed.) / 19851 English Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery ++++ This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher. While