The compleat geographer
Subtitle: or, The chorography and topography of all the known parts of the earth : to which is premis'd an introduction to geography, and a natural history of the earth and the elements : containing a true and perfect account of I. The situation, bounds and extent, climate, soil, productions, history, trade, manufactures: the religion, manners and customs of the people; with the revolutions, conquests, and other changes of all the countries on the earth: II. The several provinces that every kingdom or state is divided into; III. The principal cities and most considerable towns in the world, the magnitude, principal buildings, antiquity, present state, trade, history, &c.: as also the situation, with the distance and bearing from other towns: together with all necessary pieces of natural history : the whole containing the substance of at least an hundred and fifty books of modern travels, faithfully abstracted and digested into local order : whereby the present state of the most remote countries is truly shewn, and the obsolete and fabulous accounts of former writers wholly expung'd : to which are added maps of every country, fairly engraven on copper, according to the latest surveys, and newest discoveries, most engrav'd by Hermann Moll. --
Contributors: Moll, Herman, d. 1732.
Edition: The fourth edition; wherein the descriptions of Asia, Africa and America are compos'd a-new from the relations of travellers of the best repute, especially such as have appear'd within thirty or forty years last past. --
Publisher: Printed for J. Knapton ... [and 19 others]
Published: 1723
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Geography
Other titles: Theasaurus geographicus; The chorography and topography of all the known parts of the earth
Notes: Part 2 has special t.p. (dated 1722): Thesaurus geographicus, or, The compleat geographer ... The fourth edition, much amended ...

"The authors abstracted in this work": pt. 1, prelim. p. [4-5].

Includes index.