The history of the principal discoveries and improvements, in the several arts and sciences: particularly the great branches of commerce, navigation, and plantation, in all parts of the known world.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Standardized Title:

General history of discoveries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pirates.

Plague--England--London.

Plague.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],viii,307,[5]p. )

Other Title:

History of the principal discoveries and improvements, in the several arts and sciences

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Mears, at the Lamb, F. Clay, at the Bible, and D. Browne at the Black-Swan, without Temple Bar, MDCCXXVII. [1727] [1726]

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published monthly (London, England : 1726)

Anonymous. By Daniel Defoe.

A reissue of 'A general history of discoveries and improvements', [1725-26], with a cancel titlepage, an initial advertisement leaf, [1725-26], with pp.iii-iv reset and entitled: 'Preface', and without the titlepages to the individual parts.

Variant: p.iii is entitled 'Preface to the monthly undertaking'.

Published on 13 December 1726.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Moore, 476

Goldsmiths', 6497

Hanson, 3416n

English Short Title Catalog, T70338.

OCLC:

642666391