The history of the popes, from the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the present time. By Archibald Bower, Esq ; Heretofore Public Professor of Rhetoric, History, and Philosophy, in the Universities of Rome, Fermo, and Macerata, And, in the latter Place, Counsellor of the Inquisition
Contributors: Bower, Archibald, 1686-1766, publisher; Millar, Andrew, 1705-1768, bookseller; Sandby, William, -1799, bookseller; Stuart, Zachariah, active 1759-1774, bookseller; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Printed for the author
Published: 1748
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Papacy; Early works to 1800; History; Popes; Biography
Notes: Imprint in Vols. 4-5 differs: 'And to be had at W. Sandby's, at the Ship, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-street; at Z. Stuart's at the Lamb, in Pater-noster-Row; at Mr. Firth's, the Corner of the Old Jewry, in the Poultry; and at the Author's, opposite to the Duke of Grafton's, in Old Bond-street'.

Imprint in Vol. 5 differs: 'With this Volume is delivered A Summary View of the Controversy between the Papists and the Author, containing a Full Confutation of all the Calumnies, which They and their Protestant Tool have invented to blacken his Character, and discredit this Work, with Remarks upon the Certificates from the Inquisition'.

Imprint in Vols. 6-7 differs: 'And to be had at W. Sandby's, the Ship, in Fleet-street; W. Johnston's, Ludgate-street; Z. Stuart's, the Lamb, in Pater-noster-Row; Mr. Firth's, in the Poultry; and at the Author's House, in Woodstock-street, near New Bond-street'.

English short title catalogue, T142966

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.