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The history of modern Europe : with an account of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and a view of the progress of society, from the rise of the modern kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763 : in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Forrest Collection D208 .R8 1800 v.1-5
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russell, William, 1741-1793.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- History.
- Rome--History.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- Subscription lists (Publishing) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest copy)
- Physical Description:
- 5 volumes ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- A new edition, carefully corrected.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by H. Maxwell, Columbia-House, for William Young Birch and Abraham Small, 1800-1801.
- Notes:
- Attributed to Russell in the Dictionary of national biography.
- Signatures: v. 2, [A]4 B-3Q4 3R2 (3R2 verso blank); v. 3, [A]4 B-3S4 (3S4 verso blank); v. 4, [A]4 B-3P4 3Q2; v. 5, [A]4 B-C4 CD2 D4 E2 F-3Q4 [3R]4 ([3R]4 verso blank).
- Vol. 2: [32], 467, [1] p.; v. 3: [36], 475, [1] p.; v. 4: [40], 452 p.; v. 5: [44], 452, [8] p.
- Error in paging: v. 4, p. 335 misnumbered 353; v. 5, p. 386 misnumbered 683.
- List of subscribers, v. 5, p. [453-459].
- Cited in:
- Evans 38439
- Shaw & Shoemaker 1279
- OCLC:
- 185061674
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