The history of the principal discoveries and improvements, in the several arts and sciences: particularly the great branches of commerce, navigation, and plantation, in all parts of the known world [electronic resource].

General history of discoveries

London : printed for W. Mears, at the Lamb, F. Clay, at the Bible, and D. Browne at the Black-Swan, without Temple Bar, MDCCXXVII. [1727] [1726]

Great Britain -- England -- London.

English

[2],viii,307,[5]p. ; 8⁰.

Anonymous. By Daniel Defoe.
A reissue of 'A general history of discoveries and improvements', [1725-26], with a cancel titlepage, an initial advertisement leaf, [1725-26], with pp.iii-iv reset and entitled: 'Preface', and without the titlepages to the individual parts.
Variant: p.iii is entitled 'Preface to the monthly undertaking'.
Published on 13 December 1726.
Reproduction of original from British Library.

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Moore, 476
Goldsmiths', 6497
Hanson, 3416n
English Short Title Catalog, T70338.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Reprint. Originally published monthly (London, England : 1726)

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