The universal Library : or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein. In two volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curzon, H. (Henry).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2v.,table ) ill. ;

Edition:

The second edition. To which is added a copious index to both volumes.

Other Title:

Universal Library

Place of Publication:

London : printed for T. Warner, at the Black-Boy, and J. Batley, at the Dove, both in Pater-Noster-Row, 1722.

Notes:

The preface signed: H. Curzon, i.e. Henry Curzon.

Pp. 370-543 misnumbered 360-533 in vol.2.

Sigs. Cc4, and Kk4 incorrectly signed C4 and LI4 respectively in vol.1.

With a genealogical table.

A reissue of the 1712 edition, with a new titlepage.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Alston, III.218

English Short Title Catalog, T121187.

OCLC:

642324536