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Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774)16
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Jurin, James7
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A new geographical, historical and commercial grammar : and present state of the several kingdoms of the world (v.1)

Guthrie, William (1708-1770); Kitchin geographer; Knox, John (1720-1790)

1771

"In two volumes". Tables. "John Knox, the bookseller, said to be the real compiler" - Watt, Bibl. brit., 1824, v.1: 452.

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A new geographical, historical and commercial grammar : and present state of the several kingdoms of the world (v.2)

Guthrie, William (1708-1770); Kitchin geographer; Knox, John (1720-1790)

1771

"In two volumes". Tables. "John Knox, the bookseller, said to be the real compiler" - Watt, Bibl. brit., 1824, v.1: 452.

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Tēs palai kai tēs nyn oikoumenēs periēgēsis, sive Dionysii Geographia emendata & locupletata, additione scil. Geographiæ hodiernæ græco carmine pariter donatæ: cum 16 tabulis geographicis

Dionysius Periegetes; Wells, Edward (1667-1727)

1738

In verse; with Latin prose translation. First 7 words of title transliterated from Greek.

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Joannis Camertis Minoritani, artium, et sacrae theologiae doctoris, In.C. Julii Solini Polyistora enarrationes : Additus eiusdem Camertis index, tum literarum ordine, tum rerum notabiliu[m] copia, perco[m]modus studiosis

Camers, Joannes (1447-1546); Solinus, C Julius; Apian, Peter (1495-1552)

1520

Consists of text, headed: Julii Solini Polyhistor, and commentary by Joannes Camers (the latter printed in smaller type). "Polyistora" in title transliterated from Greek. Title surrounded by illus...

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The gazetteer's: or newsman's interpreter : being a geographical index of all the considerable provinces, cities... &c in Europe (v.1-2)

Echard, Laurence (1670?-1730)

1731-1732

Part 1 is 13th edition, corrected and very much enlarged; part 2 is 6th edition, corrected.

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Macht, Reichthũm, vñ Einkommen aller Keyser, Könige, vnd fürnembsten Fursten der gantzen Welt

Botero, Giovanni (1540-1617); Quad, Matthias (1557-1613)

Im Iahr 1606

Alden, J.E. European Americana 606/13.

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