A compleat history of Europe:. or, a view of the affairs thereof, civil and military, for the year 1712. Containing all the publick and secret transactions therein about a peace and otherwise; the several steps taken by France, for an universal monarchy, and to enslave her neighbours; the wars in Italy, Turkey, Muscovy, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Pomerania, &c. Intermix’d with great variety of original papers, letters, memoirs, treaties, &c. several of which never before made publick. With the remarkables of the year; the present state of the Imperial, all the Royal families, and other the princes and potentates of Europe; their births, marriages, issues, alliances, &c. More exact than any extant. Also a catalogue of the nobility of Great-Britain and Ireland, and correct lists of all persons in offices, or places of trust, in Her Majesty’s government. With two exact maps of all the northern parts, &c. To be continued annually.
David Jones (fl.1676-1720)
Category
Books
Date
1713
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 3194529.17
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],376,180,[12]p.,plates. maps. 8vo. Fore-edges of many leaves fragile and affected by mould. Old Gunby pressmarks: 7C (deleted), 17. Provenance: Booklabel: Henry Massingberd, Gunby. 1781. No. 393 [i.e. Henry Massingberd (d.1784)]. Binding: Early eighteenth-century mottled calf binding; gold-tooled spine, lettered as ‘Hist. of Europe 1712’ and as vol. 17 of set. In conservation box.
Makers and roles
David Jones (fl.1676-1720)