The general gazetteer
Subtitle: or, Compendious geographical dictionary containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states, republics, provinces, cities, chief towns, forts, fortresses, castles, citadels, seas, harbours, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes and promontories in the known world : together with the government, policy, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants ...
By: by R. Brookes ...
Contributors: Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner; Boston Public Library (John Adams Library)
Edition: The second edition with great additions and improvements.
Publisher: Printed for J. Newbery ..., R. Baldwin ...
Published: 1766
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 648
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Dictionaries; Geography
Other titles: Compendious geographical dictionary containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states ...; Brookes gazeteer
Notes: Folded frontispiece map.

Main body of text printed in two columns.

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.

John Adams' signature on title page: "John Adams."

ESTC, N7888

Alston, XI.100

Roscoe, A57 (2)

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.