The new universal traveller. [electronic resource] : Containing a full and distinct account of all the empires, Kingdoms, and states, in the known world. Delineating, not only their situation, climate, soil, and Produce, whether Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral, but comprising also an interesting detail of the manners, Customs, Constitutions, Religions, Learning, Arts, Manufactures, Commerce, and military force, Of All The Countries that have been visited by Travellers or Navigators, From the Beginning of the World to the Present Time. Accompanied With A Description of all the celebrated Antiquities, and an accurate History of Every Nation, from the Earliest Periods. The Whole being intended to convey a clear Idea of the Present State of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, in every Particular that can either add to useful Knowledge, or prove interesting to Curiosity. B J. Carver, Esq. Author of Travels through Interior Parts of North America.
1779
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The new universal traveller. [electronic resource] : Containing a full and distinct account of all the empires, Kingdoms, and states, in the known world. Delineating, not only their situation, climate, soil, and Produce, whether Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral, but comprising also an interesting detail of the manners, Customs, Constitutions, Religions, Learning, Arts, Manufactures, Commerce, and military force, Of All The Countries that have been visited by Travellers or Navigators, From the Beginning of the World to the Present Time. Accompanied With A Description of all the celebrated Antiquities, and an accurate History of Every Nation, from the Earliest Periods. The Whole being intended to convey a clear Idea of the Present State of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, in every Particular that can either add to useful Knowledge, or prove interesting to Curiosity. B J. Carver, Esq. Author of Travels through Interior Parts of North America.
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London : printed for G. Robinson, in Paternoster-Row, MDCCLXXIX. [1779]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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[2],iii,[1],668[i.e.664][6]p.,plates : maps ; 2⁰.
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Published in 55 parts.
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"This compilation the widow of Captain Carver denied to be the work of her husband." (Lownde's Bibliographer's manual).
"Sold his name to a historical compilation, which was published in a large folio volume, entitled 'The new universal traveller.' (Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography).
Page numbers 149-152 omitted in numbering.
Braces in imprint.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Horizontal chain lines.
"This compilation the widow of Captain Carver denied to be the work of her husband." (Lownde's Bibliographer's manual).
"Sold his name to a historical compilation, which was published in a large folio volume, entitled 'The new universal traveller.' (Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography).
Page numbers 149-152 omitted in numbering.
Braces in imprint.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T133709.
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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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