New method of studying history
Subtitle: recommending more easy and complete instructions for improvements in that science than any hitherto extant: with the whole apparatus necessary to form a perfect historian ...
By: Originally written in French by M. Langlet Du Fresnoy ... since translated into Italian, with considerable additions; the whole made English, with variety of improvements and corrections, and a copious Index of Authors.  Also, A dissertation of Court Scipio Maffei of Verona, concerning the use of inscriptions and medals, by way of parallel, by Richard Rawlinson.
Contributors: Rawlinson, Richard, 1690-1755,; Maffei, Scipione, marchese, 1675-1755.
Published: 1728
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: History -- Study and teaching; History -- Bibliography
Notes: Vol. 1 has special t.p. added; v. 2 has only special t.p.

Translation of his Méthode pour étudier l'histoire.
Table of contents: value: Vol. 1. The sciences preparatory to the study of history ... II. Of history, sacred and profane ... III. Of the histories of soverign families, of arts and sciences, religious and military orders, [etc.] ... -  Vol. 2. A catalogue of the chief historians of all nations, their best editions, and characters of their writings ...