The universal library of historians
Subtitle: (viz.) the Oriental, Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, English, and others: containing an account of their lives; the abridgment, chronology and geography of their histories; with critical observations on their style and character; and a catalogue of the several editions of their works. Also chronological and geographical tables.
By: Written in French by Lewis Ellis du Pin ... now abbot of Claraval. Done into English from the Paris edition. [Book 1]
Contributors: Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for R. Bonwicke [etc.]
Published: 1709
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; fre
Subjects: Historians.; History, Ancient.
Notes: A translation of the author's "Bibliothèque universelle des historiens," of which Book I only was published, Paris, 1707, 2 v., under the pseudonym "Abbé de Clairval." cf. Niceron and Barbier.
Book I: Of the historians which flourish'd before the reign of Alexander the Great.