An universal history of arts and sciences: : or, A comprehensive illustration, definition, and description of all sciences, divine and human; and of all arts, liberal and mechanical. The origin and progresses of all religions, sects, heresies and schisms: the description of all countries; their government, ecclesiastical, civil and military; their different climates, soils, products, and the manners of the inhabitants: the different systems of philosophers, curious and accurate observations of astronomers, both antient and modern: the history of all orders, religious and military: with curious and entirely new treatises on the duties of embassadors and plenipotentiaries, the education of princes and their subjects, and the manner of travelling into foreign parts. The whole extracted from the best authors in all languages, and enriched with the new systems, hypotheses, maxims, and reflections of the author. /
De Coetlogon, Dennis,-1749.
Faculty of Advocates (Scotland)StEdNL AB.10.204.02.
London: : Printed and sold by John Hart, in Popping's-Court, Fleet-Street.,
M DCC XLV. [1745]
Published in parts.
Titlepages in red and black.
With a list of subscribers in vol.1.
ESTC
Alston
The recto of the front free endpaper has the manuscript inscription "Ex Libris Bibliothecae Facultatis Iuridicae Edinburgi".
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