The general history and state of Europe.
Contributors: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Sands, Donaldson, Murray, & Cochran for A. Donaldson ...
Published: 1758
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: World history -- Early works to 1800; Europe -- History -- 476-1492; Europe -- History -- 1492-1648
Other titles: Universal history & state of all nations from the time of Charlemain to Lewis XIV
Notes: Translation of a version of: Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations.
Author's name, Voltaire, on added engraved t.p.
Vol. 1: xiv, [5]-349, [1] p.;     v. 3: vi, 402 p.
LC set incomplete: v. 2 wanting.
Table of contents: title: (from title pages) Volume I. Containing part I. From the reign of Charlemain to the twelfth century, and part II. From the reign of the emperor Henry III to Charles VII of France; title: Volume III. Containing part V. The affairs of Spain, England, and Holland from the middle to the end of the sixteenth century, and of France from the death of Francis I to the age of Lewis XIV, and part VI. The affairs of Spain, Germany, England, Holland, Italy, and the northern powers in the seventeenth century, which connects the whole with the age of Lewis XIV.