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Riley's historical pocket library: six volumes. Consisting of I. Heathen mythology. II. Ancient history. III. Grecian history. IV. Roman history. V. History of England. VI. Geography. ...
Riley, George.Date: 1790- Books
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Plan and outlines of a course of lectures on universal history, ancient and modern, delivered in the University of Edinburgh, by Alexander Tytler, Esq; Advocate, Professor of Civil History, and of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Illustrated with maps of Ancient and Modern Geography, and a Chronological Table.
Woodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord, 1747-1813.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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An universal atlas; consisting of a complete set of maps, peculiarly adapted to illustrate and explain ancient and modern geography: In which The Ancient and Present Divisions, as also the Subdivisions, of Countries and Names of Places are at one View presented to the Eye, in a distinct and correct Manner, on opposite Pages; the different Parts of the Earth, as originally peopled by the Descendants of Noah, pointed out; and the Geography of the Old and New Testaments included. The whole calculated to facilitate the study of Geography; To make that Science more extensively known; and thereby to render History, both Ancient and Modern, more intelligible and useful. By T. Stackhouse, A.M.
Stackhouse, Thomas, 1756-1836.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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A brief survey of the terraqueous globe: containing, I. The description and use of the globes. II. The construction and use of maps. III. Geography; Or, a short view of the Ancient and Modern State of the several Kingdoms of the World. Exhibiting, 1. The Description of the Solar System, and particularly of the Earth considered as a Planet. 2. The Situation-Extent-Boundaries and Divisions of the various Countries. 3. Chief Towns-Mountains - Rivers - Climate, and Produce. 4. Government-Revenues-Commerce-Sea, and Land Forces. 5. Religion-Language-Literature Customs, and Manners of the different Nations. 6. A View of Ancient Geography, with an Explanation of the names. Written originally by John Mair, A.M. and now republished, with great additions, Amendments, and Improvements, Illustrated with maps of the Ancient and Modern Worlds, and the Four Quarters, engrave by T. Kitchen.
Mair, John, 1702 or 1703-1769.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The historical pocket library; or, biographical vade-mecum. Six volumes. Consisting of I. The heathen-mythology. II. Ancient history. III. The Roman history. IV. The history of England. V. Geography. VI. Natural history. The Whole Forming A Moral and Comprehensive System Of Historical Information, For The Amusement and Instruction of the young Nobility of both Sexes.
Date: 1790- Books
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A collection of curious observations on the manners, Customs, Usages, different languages, government, Mythology, Chronology, Ancient and Modern Geography, Ceremonies, Religion, Mechanics, Astronomy, Medicine, Physics, Natural History, Commerce, Arts, and Sciences, of the several nations of Asia, Africa, and America. Translated from the French, first printed at Paris in 1749. by John Dunn, Chaplain to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Galloway. ...
Lambert, Claude François, 1705-1765.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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The juvenile library, including a complete course of instruction on every useful subject: particularly natural and experimental philosophy, moral philosophy, natural history, Biography, Geography and the Manners and Customs of Nations, Ancient and Modern Languages, English Law, Penmanship, Mathematics, and the Belles Lettres. With prize productions of young students; and a monthly distribution of prizes, Value Fifteen Guineas, and Upwards. ...
Date: 1800-01- Books
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A history of ancient geography / by H.F. Tozer.
Tozer, Henry Fanshawe, 1829-1916.Date: 1897- Books
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The entertaining correspondent; or curious relations. Digested into familiar letters, and conversations. Being a choice and valuable collection of very remarkable histories, from the most approved Authors, both Ancient and Modern; with regard to travels, voyages, governments, Revolutions, Geography, Arts and Sciences; the Religious, Civil and Military Customs of the different Nations in the known World; the various Productions in the Animal, Mineral, and Vegetable Kingdoms; and what ever else may be useful and entertaining. Illustrated with curious copper plates. Vol III.
Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
The centre of ancient civilization : discoveries in ancient geography and mythologies / by H.D. Daunt.
Daunt, Hew Dalrymple, 1855-Date: 1926- Books
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A compendium of ancient and modern historical geography. By Mr. de Lanségüe.
Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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Speedily will be published, Bibliotheca septentrionalis, or, an universal dictionary, containing every thing relative to the northern nations, from The Sources of the Danube and Rhine, to The Extremities of Iceland and Greenland. Comprehending Their Ancient Histories and Traditions, the Revolutions of their several Empires, their different Sects in Religion and Politics, their Governments, Laws, Customs, Manners, in Peace and War. Their Arts and Sciences. Theology, Mythology, Magic, Physics, Medicine, Morality, Chronology, Geography Astronomy, Rhetoric, and Grammar. The Lives and Remarkable Actions of their Kings, Statesmen, Legislators, Judges, Warriors, Historians, Cractors, and poets. With an Account or, and Extracts from, their Ancient Bards and Historians: Forming a Complete Body of Northern History, from the most Remote Antiquity, to the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century. By John Callander. of Craft-Forth, Esq;
Callander, John, -1789.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A complete body of ancient geography. By Mons. D'Anville, Member of the Royal Academy of Belles-Lettres, of the Academy of Sciences at Petersburg, and Secretary to the Great Duke of Orleans. Neatly engraved on thirteen plates. Containing 1. Orbis Romani, pars Orientalis. 2. Orbis Romani, pars Occidentalis. 3. Orbis Veteribus Notus. 4. Gallia. 5. Italiae. 6. Graeciae. 7. Asiae Minor, et Syriae. 8. Palaestina. 9. Aegyptus. 10. Britannia Romana, by Mr. Horsley. 11. Graeciae, pars Septentrionalis. 12. - pars Meridionalis, by Mons. De L'Isle. 13. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the British Isles, in an intermediate State, between Ancient and Modern Geography; by Mons. D'Anville. The whole materially improved, by inserting the modern names of places under the ancient.
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourgignon d', 1697-1782.Date: 1799- Books
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A Short comparative view of ancient and of modern geography.
Date: 1782?]- Books
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Geographi? antiqu? principa, or the elements of ancient geography. By Richard Perkins, Jun.
Perkins, Richard.Date: 1797- Books
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C. Julius Cæsar's Commentaries of his Wars in Gaul, and civil war with Pompey. To which is added, a supplement to his Commentary of his wars in Gaul; as also Commentaries of the Alexandrian, African, and Spanish wars, by Aulus Hirtius, or Oppius, &c. With the author's life Adorn'd with sculptures from the designs of the Famous Palladio. Made English from the original Latin. By Captain Martin Bladen. With Notes explaining the most difficult Places, the Ancient and Modern Geography exactly compar'd, and Dionysius Vossius's Supplement collected from Plutarch, Appian, Dion, &c. which makes a Connexion between the Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey.
Caesar, Julius.Date: 1712- Books
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The young geographer and astronomer's best companion. Containing, I. The Elements of Modern Geography, in which, besides many other useful Articles, the Latitude and Longitude of a great Variety of Places are given from the latest Observations. II. A comprehensive System of Ancient Geography, both sacred and profane, particularly adapted to the Illustration of the Classic Authors, and of the Historical Parts of the Bible. III. The Description and Use of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes, in which particular Attention has been given to the regular Disposition, and most convenient Solution of a numerous Collection of Problems, which are succeeded by several ingenious and entertaining Paradoxes for the Exercise of the Learner. - Also the Principles of Dialling, as it is performed and illustrated by the Globes;-And the Construction, and Use of the different Kinds of Maps. IV. The Elements of Astronomy, in which, besides a large Account of the Solar System, and of the various Motions, Revolutions, &c. of the Planet and Comets, are given the Theory of the Four Seasons, the Harvest-Moons, Eclipses, Tides, and several other Phaenomena too numerous to be here mentioned. To this Part is added a copious Appendix, containing the Elements of Chronology, a Science very intimately connected with that of Astronomy. The Whole is illustrated with The Necessary Engravings. And, though principally intended for The Use Of AtSchools, May serve as a convenient Memorandum-Book for those Gentlemen and Ladies who have been already instructed in the Sciences above-mentioned. By E. Jones, Teacher of the Classics and Geography, at Bromley, in Kent.
Jones, Evan, active 1773.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
Cunningham's Ancient geography of India / edited with introduction and notes by Surendranath Majumdar Sastri.
Cunningham, Alexander, Sir, 1814-1893.Date: 1924- Books
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The universal library: or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. In two volumes. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein.
Curzon, H. (Henry).Date: 1712- Books
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The universal Library: or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein. In two volumes.
Curzon, H. (Henry).Date: 1722- Books
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A short compendium of ancient and modern historical geography. Translated from the French, and dedicated, by permission, to Miss Billings, by Mr. de Lanségüe.
Date: M.DCC.XCI [1791]- Books
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Universal geography formed into a new and entire system; describing Asia, Africa, Europe, and America; with their subdivisions of Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics: The Extent, Boundaries, and remarkable Appearances of each Country; Cities, Towns, and Curiosities of Nature and Art. Also giving a general account of the Fossil and Vegetable Productions of the Earth, and of every Species of Animal: the history of man, in all climates, regions, and conditions; customs, manners, laws, governments, and religions: the state of arts, sciences, commerce, Manufactures, and knowledge: sketches of the Ancient and Modern History of each Nation and People. To which is added, a short view of astronomy, as connected with Geography; of the Planetary System to which the Earth belongs; and of the Universe in General. By John Payne. With a set of maps, With a Set of Maps, drawn from the best Materials, every one of which is very Neatly coloured; and a great variety of copper-plates; Descriptive of the most Remarkable Curiosities in the World. The Benefit of Geography is manifold. Some Parts relate to Civil Matters, and the Exploits of princes; some to the Heavens and to the Earth; Also to the Knowledge acquired by Navigation; to an Acquaintance with Animals, Plants, and Fruits, which are universally overspread. Strabo, Book I. Poem. ...
Payne, John, active 1800.Date: 1793. [i.e. 1794]- Books
Elements of general history, ancient and modern : to which are added a table of chronology, and a comparative view of ancient and modern geography ... / [A.F.T. Woodhouselee].
Woodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord, 1747-1813.Date: 1818- Books
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world, or, The history, geography, and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia / Collected and illustrated from ancient and modern sources. By George Rawlinson.
Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902.Date: 1873- Books
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Universal geography formed into a new and entire system; describing Asia, Africa, Europe, and America; with their Subdivisions of Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics: The Extent, Boundaries, and remarkable Appearances of each Country; Cities, Towns, and Curiosities of Nature and Art. also giving a general account of the Fossil and Vegetable Productions of the Earth, and of every Species of Animal: the history of man, in all Climates, Regions, and Conditions; Customs, Manners, Laws, Governments, and Religions: the state of arts, sciences, commerce, Manufactures, and Knowledge. Sketches of the Ancient and Modern History of each Nation and People, To which is added, a short view of astronomy, as Connected with Geography, of the Planetary System to which the Earth belongs; and of the Universe in General. by John Payne. With a Set of Maps, drawn from the best Materials, every one of which is very Neatly Coloured; And a great Variety of Copper-Plates. ...
Payne, John, active 1800.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]