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|a A modern, authentic and com[plete] system of universal geography
|h Elektronische Ressource
|b Including all the late important discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated. Navigators of various nations, in the different hemispheres; and containing a genuine history and description of the whole world, as consisting of empires, kingdoms, states, republics, provinces, continents, islands, oceans, &c. With the various countries, cities, towns, promontories, capes, bays, peninsulas, isthmusses, gulphs, rivers, harbours, lakes, mountains, volcanos, deserts, &c. Thoughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and America: together with their respective situations, extent, latitude, longitude, boundaries, climates, soil, natural and artificial curiosities, mines, metals, minerals, trees, shrubs, fruits, flowers, herbs, and other vegetable productions. With an account of the religion, laws, customs, manners, genius, habits, amusements, and ceremonies of the respective inhabitants their arts, sciences, manufactures, trade, commerce, military and civil governments, &c.
|b also exact descriptions of the various kinds of beasts, birds, fishes, amphibious creatures, reptiles, insects, &c. together with a complete history of every empire, kingdom, and state, also an account of the most remarkable battles, sieges, sea-fights, and various revolutions that have taken place in different parts of the world. The whole forming an authentic and entertaining account of every thing worthy of notice throughout the whole face of nature, both by land and water. In which is introduced, to illustrate the work, a considerable number of the most accurate whole sheet maps, forming a complete atlas. To which is added complete guide to geography, astronomy, the use of the globes, maps, &c. with an account of the rise, progress, and present state of navigation throughout the known world. Likewise containing every important, interesting, and valuable discovery throughout the whole of Cook's voyages.
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|a London
|b [Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Pater-Noster-Row; and sold by the book-sellers of Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Canterbury, Cambridge, Coventry, Chester, Derby, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Hull, Ipswich, Leeds, Liverpool, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Northampton, Oxford, Reading, Salisbury, Sherborn, Sheffield, Shrewsbury, ..., Winchester, York; and ... booksellers in En[gland,] Sco[tland]
|c 1790, [1790?]
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