A New geographical, commercial, and historical grammar, and present state of the several empires and kingdoms of the world
Subtitle: containing I. the distances, figures, and revolutions of the celestial bodies ... : to with is added, I. A geographical index ... II. A table of coins of all the different nations ... III. A chronological table of remarkable events ...
By: the whole executed on a plan similar to that of W. Guthrie, Esq. by a society in Edinburgh ; the astronomical part collected from the works of James Ferguson ... enriched with the late discoveries of Dr. Herschel, and other eminent astronomers ; embellished with an elegant set of maps ... exhibiting more fully the new geographical discoveries than those to be met with in any former publication
Contributors: Knox, John, 1720-1790; Philosophical Society of Edinburgh
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Printed for Alexander Kincaid, and sold by all the booksellers
Published: 1792
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: Geography; Early works to 1800
Notes: "Of this popular grammar, Knox, the bookseller, is said to be the real compiler."--cf. Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica, 1824, v. 1, p. 452.

"A chronological table of remarkable events from the creation to the present time:" v. 2 at end.

Errata: v. 2 before the chronological table.

Other "new" editions have title "A new system of modern geography," "A system of modern geography," "A new geographical, historical, and commercial grammar," "A universal geography."