The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical, and Poetical Dictionary; Being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Profane History

by COLLIER, Jeremy (ed.)

$250 · Offered by Biblio

London: Henry Rhodes, Thomas Newborough, L. Meredith, and Elizabeth Harris, 1701. Second Edition. Hardcover. fair. 2 vols. (unmatched bindings). Unpaginated 39 cm full leather folios. Frontispiece portraits of Collier in both volumes. Ex-library with labels affixed to lower corner of front pastedown endpapers. Unmatched leather bindings show wear with tears, scuffing, bumped corners, edges, and extremes. Back board nearly detached from volume one except for a single holding cord. Most pages clean with some occasional dampstains, foxing and thumbing. While the leather does not match, both books are the same edition and printed in the same year. Sold "as-is." Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable action of the patriarchs, judges, and Kings of the Jews; of the Apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, &c. Of Heresiarchs and Schismaticks, with an account of their principal doctrines; of Emperors, Kings, illustrious Princes, and great generals; of ancient and modern authors; of philosophers, inventors of arts, and all those notable circumstances of their lives. Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen Gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, common wealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains, rivers, and other considerable places, both of ancient and modern geography; wherein is observed the

• Publisher: Henry Rhodes, Thomas Newborough, L. Meredith, and Elizabeth Harris
• Year: 1701
• Edition: Second Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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