The history of the principal discoveries and improvements, in the several arts and sciences [electronic resource] : particularly the great branches of commerce, navigation, and plantation, in all parts of the known world.
Defoe, Daniel,1661?-1731.
London : printed for W. Mears, F. Clay, and D. Browne,
1727 [1726]
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.
Anonymous. By Daniel Defoe.
Published on 13 December 1726.
Variant: p.iii is entitled 'Preface to the monthly undertaking'.
ESTC
Goldsmiths',
Hanson,
Moore,
Reprint. Originally published monthly (London, England : 1726)
General history of discoveries and improvements