A guide into the knowledge of publick affairs, both foreign and domestick, being a curious miscellany, wherein will be occasionally explained whatever relates to the several potentates in the world, ... Also an account of the several orders of knighthood, of the various religions, sects and parties, of the chief ministers of state, ... The whole making a compleat series of modern history: a work never before attempted in English.
London : printed for J. Pote; and sold by J. Roberts, and the booksellers of London and Westminster,
1728.
The Bookseller's preface, signed J.P. (i.e. Joseph Pote) and dated 4 May 1728, indicates that the author was a foreigner, and that the work was to be published originally in parts.
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