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The general gazetteer; or, compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, Towns, Forts, Seas, Harbours, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Capes, &c. in the known world; With The Government, Customs, Manners, And Religion Of The Inhabitants; The Extent, Boundaries, and Natural Productions of each Country; the Trade, Manufactures, and Curiosities of the Cities and Towns; their Longitude, Latitude, Bearings and Distances in English Miles from remarkable Places; and the various Events by which they have been distinguished. Including An Account of the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Market-Towns, and principal Villages, in Great Britain and Ireland. Illustrated with maps. Originally written by R. Brookes, M.D.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: 1800- Books
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Geographia scotiæ: Being new and correct maps of all the counties and islands in the kingdom of Scotland. Containing the universities, cities, presbytery, and market-towns, rivers, locks, roads, &c. With a general map of the whole kingdom, from the latest observations.
Kitchin, Thomas, -1784.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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God our protector and refuge in danger and trouble. A discourse, delivered at the public lecture in Boston, on Thursday, March 16, 1797. By John Lathrop, D.D. A.A.S. With an appendix, containing an account of several daring attempts to set fire to the town and rob the inhabitants; together with hints tending to the security of populous towns and cities, against the evils to which they are more particularly exposed.
Lathrop, John, 1740-1816.Date: 1797- Books
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The general gazetteer; or, compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, and capes, in the known world; with The Government, Customs, Manners, and Religion of the Inhabitants; the Extent, Boundaries, and Natural Productions of each Country; the Trade, Manufactures, and Curiosities of the Cities and Towns; their Longitude, Latitude, Bearings and Distances in English Miles from remarkable Places; and the various Events by which they have been distinguished. Including An Account of the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Market-Towns, and principal Villages, in Great Britain and Ireland. Illustrated with maps. Originally written by R. Brookes, M.D.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Journals
Town and country planning : the quarterly review of the Town and Country Planning Association.
Date: 1932-- Books
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Brookes' general gazetteer abridged. Containing a geographical description of the countries, cities, towns, forts, seas, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world; with their Longitude and Latitude, Bearings and Distances from Remarkable Places, and the Events by which they have been Distinguished. Illustrated by maps.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: 1796- Books
The general gazetteer; or, compendious geographical dictionary : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country; ... / originally compiled by R. Brookes.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: 1826- Books
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Poems, chiefly on religious subjects. By John Foster, Shoemaker, Of Winteringham in Lincolnshire. Late A Private In The N. Lincoln Militia. With a recommendatory preface, by the Rev. Robert Storry, Vicar of St. Peter's, Colchester.
Forster, John, shoemaker.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]- Books
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The Hibernian gazetteer, being a description of the several provinces, counties, cities, towns, rivers, lakes, harbours, mountains, boggs, castles, churches, seats, mines, collieries, principal buildings, mineral springs roads, market, post and fair towns, in Ireland. Alphabetically arranged; and exhibiting a compleat view of the antiquities, natural curiosities, trade and manufactures of that Kingdom, with the distances of the respective places; their latitude and longitude; state of Parliamentary representation; remarkable occurrences; the patronage of boroughs; fair days, with other particulars useful and entertaining: with a concise historical and geographical account of Ireland: and an appendix descriptive of its antient topography, and the territorial districts of its original proprietors-with several useful tables-and two new and accurate maps, neatly engraved. The whole collected from the best authorities and most accurate observations. By William Wenman Seward, Esq.
Seward, William Wenman.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A description of England and Wales. Containing a particular account of each county. With its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries, and other religious houses, besides a variety of cuts of urns, inscriptions, and other antiquities.
Date: 1769-1770- Books
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A History of the whole realm of Scotland, civil, natural, and ecclesiastical: Comprehending an account of all its kings, and remarkable events, with a description of its situation, commodities, distances of towns, &c. Also, of cities, royal borroughs, abbeys, palaces, forts, castles, towns, roads, and rivers; together with a list of the shires, synods, presbyteries, parishes, &c. And likewise, a description of the orkneys, and the other isles, with the genealogy of the saxons, danes, and normans. With a variety of other curious and interesting particulars, proper to be known and perused by every scotsman.
Date: 1765- Books
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The general gazetteer; or, compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a Description of the Mpires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces, Cities, Towns, Forts, Seas, Harbours, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Capes, &c. In the Known World; With the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; The Xtent, Boundaries, and Natural Productions of each Country; the Trade, Manufactures, and Curiosities of the Cities and Towns; their Longitude, Latitude, Bearings and Distances in English Miles from remarkable Places; and the various Events by which they have been distinguished. Including In Account of the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Market-Towns, and principal Villages, in Great Britain and Ireland. Illustrated by maps. Originally written by R. Brookes, M.D.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: 1797- Books
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A voyage to the Levant: or, travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor, the islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, &c. With An Account of the most Considerable Cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land. Enrich'd with above two hundred copper-plates, wherein are represented the most Noted Cities, Countries, Towns, and other remarkable Things, all Drawn to the Life. By M. Corneille le Bruyn. Done into English, by W. J.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: 1702- Books
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Geographia Scoti?: being new and correct maps of all the counties and islands in the kingdom of Scotland. Containing the universities, cities, Presbytery, and Market-Towns, Rivers, Locks, Roads, &c. With a general map of the whole kingdom, from the latest Observations.
Kitchin, Thomas, -1784.Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Books
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The East-India gazetteer; containing particular descriptions of the empires, kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, towns, districts, fortresses, harbours, rivers, lakes, &c. of Hindostan, and the adjacent countries, India beyond the Ganges, and the eastern archipelago; together with sketches of the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, revenues, population, castes, religion, history, &c. of their various inhabitants / By Walter Hamilton.
Hamilton, Walter, M.R.A.S.Date: 1828- Books
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The gazetteer's, or news-man's interpreter. Being a geographical index of all the considerable provinces, cities, patriarchships, Bishopricks, Universities, Duke doms, Earldoms, and such like; Imperial and Hanse-Towns, Ports, Forts, Castles, &c. in Europe. Shewing In what Kingdoms, Provinces, and Counties they are; to what Prince they are now subject; upon, or nigh what Rivers, Bays, Seas, Mountains, &c. they stand; their Distances (in English Miles) from several other Places of Note; with their Longitude and Latitude, according to the best and approved Maps: With the Addition of a Table of the Births, Marriages, &c. of all the Kings, Princes, and Potentates of Europe. Of special use for the true understanding of all modern histories of Europe, as well as the present Affairs; and, for the Conveniency of Cheapness and Pocket-Carriage Explained by Abbreviations and Figures. The seventeenth edition, corrected, and very much enlarged, with the Addition of all the several Provinces and Counties of Europe, and all the Towns of Great-Britain, which send Members to Parliament; and of the Towns and other Places that give Titles to the Nobility; with the Counties they lie in, and their Distances from London. By Laurence Echard, A. M. of Christ's College in Cambridge.
Echard, Laurence, 1670?-1730.Date: 1751- Books
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The general gazetteer: 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; The Extent, Bounds, and Natural Productions of each Country; and the Trade, Manufactures, and Curiosities, of the Cities and Towns; their Longitude, Latitude, Bearing and Distances in English Miles from remarkable Places; AS Also, The Sieges they have undergone, and the Battles fought near them. Including An Authentic Account of the Counties, Cities, and Market-Towns in England and Wales; as also the Villages, with the Day-on which the Fairs are kept. Embellished with nine maps. By R. Brookes, M.D.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: MDCCLXXIII, [1773]- Books
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A geographical description of kingdom of Ireland, newly corrected & improv'd by a actual observantion. Contaning one general map of the whole Kingdom with 4 provincial and 32 county maps, divided into baronies, wherein are carefully laid do[n]n all the cities, towns, rivers, harbours, headland with the addition of several market towns and other places of note omitted in former maps, together with all the principal roads, and the distances in comon reputed miles. And where in likewise the borrough towns barracks ferrys [are] distinguished. The [whole] being laid down from the best maps viz. W. Pettys. M. Pratts with a description of each county collected from the best account extant. -1728
Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.Date: [1728]- Books
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The gazetteer's, or, newsman's interpreter. Being a geographical index of all the considerable provinces, cities, Patriarchships, Bishopricks, Universities, Dukedoms, Earldoms, and such like; Imperial and Hanse-Towns, Ports, Forts, Castles, &c. in Europe. Shewing, In what Kingdoms, Provinces, and Counties they are; to what Prince they are now subject, upon, or nigh what Rivers, Bays, Seas, Mountains, &c. they stand; their Distances (in English Miles) from several other Places of Note; with their Longitude and Latitude, according to the best and approv'd Maps: With the Addition of a Table of the Births, Marriages, &c. of all the Kings, Princes, and Potentates of Europe. Of special Use for the true Understanding of all Modern Histories of Europe, as well as the present Affairs; and, for the Conveniency of Cheapness and Pocket Carriage, Explained by Abbreviations and Figures. The sixteenth edition, corrected, and very much enlarged, with the addition of all the several provinces and counties of Europe and all th towns of Great-Britain, which send members to Parliament; and of the Towns and other Places that give Titles to the Nobility; with the Counties they lie in, and their Distances from London. By Lawrence Echard, A. M. of Christ's College in Cambridge.
Echard, Laurence, 1670?-1730.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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The history of the long captivity and adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South-Barbary. Giving an account of his being taken by two Sallee Rovers ... In which is introduced a particular account of the manners and customs of the Moors ... Together with a description of the cities, towns, and publick buildings in those kingdoms ... / Written by himself.
Pellow, Thomas, 1704-Date: [1740?]- Books
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Second collection. The following letters are here re-printed together for the more convenient information of the committees and delegates of associated counties, cities, and towns, and all other well-meaning men, throughout England. London, 7th March, 1781. J. Massie.
Massie, J. (Joseph), -1784.Date: 1781]- Books
Cleansing of cities and towns : embracing the most modern methods of refuse disposal, and all works dealt with by a cleansing department, together with the latest developments and results in motor traction, etc. The cleansing superintendents' handbook / by Arthur May.
May, Arthur.Date: [1912]- Books
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The universal gazetteer; being a concise description, alphabetically arranged, of the nations kingdoms, States, Towns, Empires, Provinces, Cities, Oceans, Seas, Harbours, Rivers, Lakes, Canals, Mountains, Capes, &c. in the known world; the Government, Manners, and Religion of the inhabitants, with the extent, Boundaries, and Natural productions, Manufactures and Curiosities of the different Countries. Containing Several thousand Places not to be met with in any similar Gazetteer. Illustrated with a complete set of maps. By John Walker.
Walker, John, 1759-1830.Date: 1795- Books
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The modern gazetteer: or compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states, Republicks, 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. The Extent, Bounds, and Natural Productions of each Country; and the Trade, Manufactures, and Curiosities of the Cities and Towns; their Longitude, Latitude, Bearing and Distances in English Miles from remarkable Places; AS Also The Sieges they have undergone, and the Battles that have been fought near them, particularly those of the Last War; Attention has also been paid to the Partition made by the late Treaty of Peace. In the Articles of Ireland and America all Advantages have been taken of whatever has been hitherto wrote, with many Thousand Additions, not to be found in any other Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer. The third edition, carefully corrected. With a collection of modern maps: also an appendix ; containing a Description and accurate Chart, of the Falkland Islands; which are the Cause of the present Negotiation, and expected War, between the Courts of Great-Britain and Spain. By R. Brookes, M. D. Author of the New System of Natural History.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]- Books
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The new gazetteer: Or, Geographical companion. Containing, a general and concise account, alphabetically arranged, of all the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, seas, harbours, bays, rivers, lakes, and mountains, in the known world: and more particularly in Great-Britain, Ireland, and America. The whole intended as a useful pocket vade-mecum for the readers of public newspapers, and for young students in geography. By R. Johnson.
Johnson, R., active 1772.Date: 1776