The universal Library [electronic resource] : or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein. In two volumes.
1722
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The universal Library [electronic resource] : or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein. In two volumes.
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The second edition. To which is added a copious index to both volumes.
Publication Details
London : printed for T. Warner, at the Black-Boy, and J. Batley, at the Dove, both in Pater-Noster-Row, 1722.
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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2v.,table : ill. ; 8⁰.
Note
The preface signed: H. Curzon, i.e. Henry Curzon.
Pp. 370-543 misnumbered 360-533 in vol.2.
Sigs. Cc4, and Kk4 incorrectly signed C4 and LI4 respectively in vol.1.
With a genealogical table.
A reissue of the 1712 edition, with a new titlepage.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Pp. 370-543 misnumbered 360-533 in vol.2.
Sigs. Cc4, and Kk4 incorrectly signed C4 and LI4 respectively in vol.1.
With a genealogical table.
A reissue of the 1712 edition, with a new titlepage.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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Alston, III.218
English Short Title Catalog, T121187.
English Short Title Catalog, T121187.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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