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 : in two volumes
By: originally written in French by M. Langlet du Fresnoy ... Since translated into Italian, with considerable additions.  The whole made English, with ... a copious index of authors ; by Richard Rawlinson ; Also, a dissertation by count Scipio Maffei ... concerning the use of inscriptions andmedals ....
Contributors: Rawlinson, Richard.; Maffei, Scipione, marchese, 1675-1755.; Burton, William, fl. 1728, publisher.; Batley, Jeremiah, d. 1737, bookseller.
Publisher: Printed for W. Burton in St. John's-Lane, near Hicks's Hall; and sold by J. Batley in Pater-noster-Row ... [et al.]
Published: 1728
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Work titles: Méthode pour étudier l'histoire.
Notes: T.p for whole in vol.1; both vols. have t.p. proper to themselves with author statement "by Richard Rawlinson" and imprint "London: printed in the year M.DCC.XXVIII".

Indexes.
Table of contents: title: Contents: vol. 1: The sciences preparatory to the study of history ... ; Of history, sacred and prophane ...; Of the histories of sovereign families ... ; A dissertation of Count Scipio Maffei ... concerning the use of inscriptions ... Vol. 2: A catalogueof the chief historians of all nations ...