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• THE Geographical Magazine; OR A NEW, COPIOUS, COMPLEAT, AND UNIVERSAL SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHY : CONTAINING An accurate and entertaining ACCOUNT and DESCRIPTION of the several Continents, Islands ... and Bays, OF Asia, Africa, Europe, and America; DIVIDED INTO EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, STATES, AND COLONIES, WITH THE Climate, Situation, Extent and Boundaries of each; and their several Provinces, Districts ... ALSO, The various Forms of Government, Laws ... of the different Countries; with all the Castles ... Herbs, and other Vegetable Productions. Their Literature, Arts ... and Commerce. The Customs, Manners ... and Civil and Religious Ceremonies of the Inhabitants; with the Titles and Distinctions of Honour peculiar to each Country. AND Pleasing and Interesting Descriptions of the infinite Variety of Birds ... and Insects. LIKEWISE, An exact Account of the Coins, Weights and Measures, of the various Countries; with Tables, reducing them to the Value and Standard of Great Britain; a Geographical Index, containing the Names of Places, alphabetically arranged; a Biographical List of learned, eminent, and ingenious Men, of every Age and Country; and a Chronological Table of remarkable Events from the Creation of the World. WITH A Concise HISTORY of each Country, from the earliest Periods; comprehending an interesting and entertaining Compendium OF ANCIENT AND MODERN UNIVERSAL HISTORY. To which are prefixed An INTRODUCTORY TREATISE on the Sciences of GEOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY; and their Relation to each other: With the FIGURES, MOTIONS, and DISTANCES of the PLANETS, agreeable to the NEWTONIAN System, and the Observations, Discoveries, and Improvements, of Dr. HALLEY, Mr. FERGUSON, and others. AND A New and Familiar GUIDE to the Use of the Celestial and Terrestrial GLOBES
  by: Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758-1837
  Published: (1783)
• THE Geographical Magazine; OR A NEW, COPIOUS, COMPLEAT, AND UNIVERSAL SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHY : CONTAINING An accurate and entertaining ACCOUNT and DESCRIPTION of the several Continents, Islands ... and Bays, OF Asia, Africa, Europe, and America; DIVIDED INTO EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, STATES, AND COLONIES, WITH THE Climate, Situation, Extent and Boundaries of each; and their several Provinces, Districts ... ALSO, The various Forms of Government, Laws ... of the different Countries; with all the Castles ... Herbs, and other Vegetable Productions. Their Literature, Arts ... and Commerce. The Customs, Manners ... and Civil and Religious Ceremonies of the Inhabitants; with the Titles and Distinctions of Honour peculiar to each Country. AND Pleasing and Interesting Descriptions of the infinite Variety of Birds ... and Insects. LIKEWISE, An exact Account of the Coins, Weights and Measures, of the various Countries; with Tables, reducing them to the Value and Standard of Great Britain; a Geographical Index, containing the Names of Places, alphabetically arranged; a Biographical List of learned, eminent, and ingenious Men, of every Age and Country; and a Chronological Table of remarkable Events from the Creation of the World. WITH A Concise HISTORY of each Country, from the earliest Periods; comprehending an interesting and entertaining Compendium OF ANCIENT AND MODERN UNIVERSAL HISTORY. To which are prefixed An INTRODUCTORY TREATISE on the Sciences of GEOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY; and their Relation to each other: With the FIGURES, MOTIONS, and DISTANCES of the PLANETS, agreeable to the NEWTONIAN System, and the Observations, Discoveries, and Improvements, of Dr. HALLEY, Mr. FERGUSON, and others. AND A New and Familiar GUIDE to the Use of the Celestial and Terrestrial GLOBES
  by: Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758-1837
  Published: (1785)
• A COLLECTION OF Voyages and Travels CONSISTING OF Authentic WRITERS in our own Tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other Collections : And continued with Others of Note, that have published HISTORIES, VOYAGES, TRAVELS, JOURNALS or DISCOVERIES in other Nations and Languages. RELATING TO Any Part of the CONTINENT of ASIA, AFRICA, AMERICA, EUROPE, or the ISLANDS thereof, from the earliest Account to the present Time. DIGESTED According to the PARTS of the WORLD, to which they particularly relate: WITH HISTORICAL INTRODUCTIONS to each ACCOUNT, where thought necessary, containing either the LIVES of their AUTHORS, or what else could be discovered and was supposed capable of entertaining and informing the curious READER. And with great Variety of CUTS, PROSPECTS, RUINS, MAPS, and CHARTS. COMPILED From the curious and valuable LIBRARY of the late EARL of OXFORD. Interspersed and Illustrated with NOTES. CONTAINING, Either a GENERAL ACCOUNT of the DISCOVERY of those COUNTRIES, or an Abstract of their HISTORIES, GOVERNMENT, TRADE, RELIGION, [et]c. collected from ORIGINAL PAPERS, LETTERS, CHARTERS, LETTERS PATENTS, ACTS of PARLIAMENT, [et]c. no to be met with, and proper to explain many abscure Passages in other Collections of this Kind. VOL. VII
  Published: (1747)
• A COLLECTION OF Voyages and Travels CONSISTING OF Authentic WRITERS in our own Tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other Collections : And continued with Others of Note, that have published HISTORIES, VOYAGES, TRAVELS, JOURNALS or DISCOVERIES in other Nations and Languages. RELATING TO Any Part of the CONTINENT of ASIA, AFRICA, AMERICA, EUROPE, or the ISLANDS thereof, from the earliest Account to the present Time. DIGESTED According to the PARTS of the WORLD, to which they particularly relate: WITH HISTORICAL INTRODUCTIONS to each ACCOUNT, where thought necessary, containing either the LIVES of their AUTHORS, or what else could be discovered and was supposed capable of entertaining and informing the curious READER. And with great Variety of CUTS, PROSPECTS, RUINS, MAPS, and CHARTS. COMPILED From the curious and valuable LIBRARY of the late EARL of OXFORD. Interspersed and Illustrated with NOTES. CONTAINING, Either a GENERAL ACCOUNT of the DISCOVERY of those COUNTRIES, or an Abstract of their HISTORIES, GOVERNMENT, TRADE, RELIGION, [et]c. collected from ORIGINAL PAPERS, LETTERS, CHARTERS, LETTERS PATENTS, ACTS of PARLIAMENT, [et]c. no to be met with, and proper to explain many abscure Passages in other Collections of this Kind. VOL. VIII
  Published: (1747)
• A biographical dictionary; containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time; and a short list of their most esteemed works. With the cyphers, monograms, and particular marks, used by each master, accurately copied from the originals, and properly explained. To which is prefixed, an essay on the rise and progress of the art of engraving, both on copper and on wood. With several curious specimens of the performances of the most ancient artists. Vol. II
  by: Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802
  Published: (1786)