A geographical dictionary : representing the present and antient names and states of all the countries, kingdoms, provinces, remarkable cities, universities, ports, towns, mountains, seas, streights, fountains, and rivers of the whole world : their distances, longitudes, and latitudes, with a short historical account of the same, and a general index of the antient and Latin names, very necessary for the understanding of all antient and modern histories, and especially the diverse accounts of the present transactions of Europe
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Title: A geographical dictionary : representing the present and antient names and states of all the countries, kingdoms, provinces, remarkable cities, universities, ports, towns, mountains, seas, streights, fountains, and rivers of the whole world : their distances, longitudes, and latitudes, with a short historical account of the same, and a general index of the antient and Latin names, very necessary for the understanding of all antient and modern histories, and especially the diverse accounts of the present transactions of Europe
Classmark: YAS 1785
Creator(s): Bohun, Edmund (1645-1699)
Additional creator(s): Barnard, John Augustine (1661-) (Editor); Brome, Charles (1687-1700) (Bookseller)
Publisher: Printed for Charles Brome, at the Gun at the west end of St. Pauls
Publication city: London
Date(s): MDCXCV [1695]
Language: English
Size and medium: 4 preliminary leaves, 23, 4, 16, 437 (i.e. 445), 20 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/503553
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010872499705181
Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Description
Errors in paging: p. 39, 320, 325-326, 439-445 numbered 25, 318, 323-324, 431-437 respectively.
Title page printed in black and red.
Errata on final page.
Edition statement continues: As also a continuation of the most remarkable transactions that have any where lately happened, and which illustrate the geography and the history of places to the end of the campaign, 1694 : with an an [sic] alphabetical table of the most noted rivers and mountains in England and Wales, shewing the rise, course and falls of the first, and the situation and extent of the latter. Never before published.
Indexed in: Wing,
Indexed in: ESTC,
Additional description
Bound in full-panelled calf with blind tooling to boards. Spine lettered: 'Bohun's Geographical Dictionary. 1695'. Inscribed: 'John Armytage [...]' and 'Jo. Turner Hopton York.re' on title page. With further manuscript annotations on title page and throughout the volume in a contemporary hand
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