Speedily will be published, Bibliotheca septentrionalis, or, an universal dictionary, containing every thing relative to the northern nations, from The Sources of the Danube and Rhine, to The Extremities of Iceland and Greenland. Comprehending Their Ancient Histories and Traditions, the Revolutions of their several Empires, their different Sects in Religion and Politics, their Governments, Laws, Customs, Manners, in Peace and War. Their Arts and Sciences. Theology, Mythology, Magic, Physics, Medicine, Morality, Chronology, Geography Astronomy, Rhetoric, and Grammar. The Lives and Remarkable Actions of their Kings, Statesmen, Legislators, Judges, Warriors, Historians, Cractors, and poets. With an Account or, and Extracts from, their Ancient Bards and Historians: Forming a Complete Body of Northern History, from the most Remote Antiquity, to the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century. By John Callander. of Craft-Forth, Esq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callander, John, d. 1789.

Standardized Title:

Bibliotheca septentrionalis. Prospectus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Universal bibliography--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Universal bibliography.

Genre:

Prospectuses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (13,[1]p. )

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : printed by Bell and Murray, for W. Strahan, London; and W. Gordon, Edinburgh, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]

Notes:

A prospectus for Callander's Bibliotheca septentrionalis. Containing a preface and specimens of the dictionary articles.

Docket title: 'Specimen of the Bibliotheca septentrionalis. MDCCLXXVIII'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T106568.

OCLC:

642255295