Dictionnaire géographique-portatif, ou Description des royaumes, provinces, villes, évêchés, duchés, comtés, marquisats, villes impériales, ports, forteresses, citadelles, et autres lieux considérables des quatre parties du monde : dans lequel on indique... traduit de l'anglois sur la treizième édition de Laurent Echard, par Monsieur Vosgien, chanoine de Vaucouleurs
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Type of record: Book
Title: Dictionnaire géographique-portatif, ou Description des royaumes, provinces, villes, évêchés, duchés, comtés, marquisats, villes impériales, ports, forteresses, citadelles, et autres lieux considérables des quatre parties du monde : dans lequel on indique... traduit de l'anglois sur la treizième édition de Laurent Echard, par Monsieur Vosgien, chanoine de Vaucouleurs
Classmark: Anglo-French 4 1792/ECH
Creator(s): Vosgien (1709-1765)
Additional creator(s): Echard, Laurence (1670?-1730) (Other); Bruzen de La Martinière, Antoine Augustin (1662-1746) (Other); Feller, F.-X de (1735-1802) (Other)
Related people: Echard, Laurence; Bruzen de la Martinière, Antoine Augustin; Feller, F.-X. de
Publisher: Chez les Libraires Associés
Publication city: A Paris
Date(s): 1792
Language: French
Size and medium: 2 v in 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/261846
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016861959705181
Description
With amendments by F. X. Feller.
Vosgien's adaptation of Echard's "Gazetteer's or newsman's interpreter", originally published in London by Tho. Salusbury in 1692. Vosgien's work also draws heavily on Bruzen de la Martinère's "Grand dictionnaire". See Echeverria & Wilkie, French image; Alden-Landis, European Americana.
Vosgien = J. B. Ladvocat.
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