Sanchoniatho's Phonician history, translated from the first book of Eusebius De præparatione evangelica. With a continuation of Sanchoniatho's History by Eratosthenes Cyrenæus's Canon, which Dicaearchus connects with the First Olympiad. These Authors are illustrated with many Historical and Chronological Remarks, proving them to contain a Series of Phoenician and Egyptian Chronology, from the first Man to the first Olympiad, agreeable to the Scripture Accounts. By the Rt. Revd. R. Cumberland, D. D. late Bishop of Peterborough. With a preface giving a brief account of the life, Character, and Writings of the author, by S. Payne, A. M. Rector of Barnack, in Northamptonshire, his Lordship's domestick Chaplain
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London
printed by W. B. for R. Wilkin at the King's Head in St. Paul's Church yard
1720, MDCCXX. [1720]
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T100370. - Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 695. - Pp.xxxiii-xxxviii misnumbered xvii-xxii. - Printed by William Bowyer. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - Signatures from Maslen & Lancaster. - Signatures: A-Bp8s Cp4s D-2Kp8s 2Lp4s. - The preface (sig. A-C), reimposed in half sheets, was separately issued: Squier Payne, A brief account of the life, character, and writings, of the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard Cumberland, 1720. - The preface gives an account of the translator's life |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (xxii[i.e.xxxviii],[2],488p.,table) 8° |