A pleasant and compendious history of the first inventers and instituters of the most famous arts, Misteries, Laws, Customs and Manners in the whole world. Together with many other rarities and remarkable things rarely known, and never before made publick. To which is added, several curious inventions, peculiarly attributed to England & English-Men. The whole Work Alphabetically Digested, and very helpful to the Readers of History.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.

Standardized Title:

De inventoribus rerum. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inventors--Early works to 1800.

Inventors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([16],159,[5]p. )

Other Title:

Pleasant and compendious history of the first inventers and instituters of the most famous arts,

Place of Publication:

London : printed and are to be sold by Edw. Poole, the Hall Moon under the Royal Exchange, 1702.

Notes:

Anonymous. By Polydore Vergil.

'De inventoribus rerum' was first published in Venice in 1499.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T182511.

OCLC:

642504305