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"T. Gillet, printer"--Title page verso.
Signatures: v. 1. A-Zz? 3A-3M? (3M4 blank); v. 2. [A]-3Y? (3Y3-4 advertisements).
Frontispiece portrait (dated Dec. 22, 1800) engraved by M. Bovi after P.N. Violet.

Newly enl. and augmented, as well in the 1st part with diuers profitable histories, as in the latter ende with the whole summe of those thinges that Paulus Jouius and Sleidane hath [sic] written of late yeres, that is, from the beginnyng of Kyng…

Title from incipit (page 2v). Imprint from colophon.

Early ownership inscription erased at head of a2 recto. Annotation in Latin noting the death of Pope Gregory XII in 1585, a9 recto.

Binding: English red morocco circa 1800, covers ruled in…

A translation of: Discours sur l'histoire universelle,
Running title reads: A discourse concerning universal history.

Title from incipit of text, leaf 2?r (corrected state).

Colophon: Fasciculus temporu[m] o[mn]es quasi antiquas chronicas mortaliu[m] vs[que] ad hec tempora co[m]plectens felicit[er] explicit Impressus[que] impensa & arte mira Erhardo rodolt de…

"To the reader" signed: R.P., who claims responsibility for the translation, the continuation to 1659, and the "geographicall description."

"A geographicall description of the world" has individual dated title page and separate pagination; the…

Second edition of the "antient part"; 1st edition, 1736-44.
Vols. 1-12, 1747; v. 13-20, 1748; v. 21, 1754; Articles by George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton, and others. Cf. Brit. Mus.…