New method of studying history: recommending more easy and complete instructions for improvements in that science than any hitherto extant: with the whole apparatus necessary to form a perfect historian ... / Originally written in French by M. Langlet du Fresnoy ... Since translated into Italian, with considerable additions. The whole made English, with variety of improvements and corrections ... Also, a dissertation by Count Scipio Maffei of Verona ... By Richard Rawlinson ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lenglet Dufresnoy, Nicolas, 1674-1755.

Contributor:

Founders Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Méthode pour étudier l'histoire. English

Language:

English

French

Italian

Subjects (All):

History--Study and teaching.

History.

History--Bibliography.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Penn Provenance:

Peters, Richard (bookplate)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. Burton and sold by J. Batley [and 5 others], 1728.

Notes:

Vols. 1 and 2 each have a special title-page which reads: A new method of studying history ... Vol. I. [-II]. ... by Richard Rawlinson ... London : printed in the year M.DCC.XXVIII.

V. 2 has only special t.-p.

"A catalogue of the chief historians of all nations, their best editions, and characters of their writings": v. 2.

Translation of: Metodo per istudiare la storia, itself a translation of: Méthode pour étudier l'histoire.

Includes indexes.

Cited in:

Sabin 40029

OCLC:

9453043