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.
Laurence Echard (c1670 - 1730)
Category
Books
Date
1738
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 3256425
Summary
Bibliographic description
The fourteenth edition, corrected and very much enlarged with the addition of all the several provinces and counties in Europe, and all the towns in 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.. [276] p.. 17 cm. Provenance: On front pastedown, bookplate with heraldic device 'Gulielmus Hancock Ex. Hosp. Lincoln'. Binding: full calf with double gilt fillets to form a border, five raised bands with spine label (worn).
Makers and roles
Laurence Echard (c1670 - 1730)