A general history of the world, from the creation to the present time : including all the empires, kingdoms, and states ; their revolutions, forms of government, law, religions, customs and manners : the progress of their learning, arts, sciences, commerce and trade : together with their chronology, antiquities, public buildings, and curiosities of nature and art
1764
A general history of the world, from the creation to the present time : including all the empires, kingdoms, and states ; their revolutions, forms of government, law, religions, customs and manners : the progress of their learning, arts, sciences, commerce and trade : together with their chronology, antiquities, public buildings, and curiosities of nature and art
1764
Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 12 volumes : 22 cm (8°) Vols. 9-10 are dated 1765; 11, 1766 and 12, 1767 "A complete index to the general history of the world", covering all 12 volumes, was published separately, bearing the false date 1764 Type ornaments as tail-pieces Library set incomplete, lacking vol. 1-3 and all illustrative matter. Binding: tree calf; gold fillets on boards; double lettering-piece; gold-tooled spine; all edges stained green; marbled paper end-papers; trimmed to 21 cm. Vol. 4-6 have water stains. Binder's error: v. 9 front board attached in the back; ex-libris upside-down. Some volumes crudely repaired; rebacked with tape. Library's ex-libris engraved by P.R. Maverick on front paste-down, v. 6; No. 298 in MS, black ink. The Index, published separately in 1767, was considered by the library v. 13 of the main work. Listed in 1789 catalogue, p. 36, 8°; "bot. by E. Greswold [17]89"; in 1793 catalogue, p. 44, No. 293, 13 vols. [sic], and in the First ledger as Guthrie's world. Volume 1 borrowed by Elizabeth De Peyster on March 28th, 1792, returned on April 17th
