Shelfmark
Ge.5.13
Author
Uniform title
[Méthode pour apprendre facilement la géographie. English]
Title
A short and easy method to understand geography. Wherein are describ'd, the form of government of each country, its qualities, the manners of its inhabitants, and whatsoever is most remarkable in it: to which are added observations upon those things of importance that have happen'd in each state. With an abridgment of the sphere, and the use of geographical maps. Made English by a gentleman of Cambridge. From the French of Mr. A.D. Fer, geographer to the French King..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed for H. Banks, at the Golden Key, over against St. Dunstan's Church, and T. Woodward, near the inner Temple Gate, both in Fleet-Street., [1713 or 1714?]
Physical description
[6], v, [13], 312 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Note
Title-page printed in red and black.
Note
With an "Advertisement to the reader" slip pasted to the verso of the titlepage.
Note
Signatures: a-c⁴ B-V⁸ X⁴.
Note
Translator's dedication signed: G. B.
Note
Internal advertisements suggest a date between 1713 and 1717. Advertised in The Post Boy October 5-7, 1714, Issue 3029. Cf. 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers online.
Note
Title printed within a double-ruled border.
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Advertisements on leaf b2v.
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Includes index.
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Head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initials.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T131239
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front pastedown, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary calf; boards have three concentric blind-tooled frames, sprinkled; five raised bands; red goatskin spine label with gilt title in double-gold-fillet frame: "Fer's Geogra"; board edges tooled in gold; text block edges sprinkled red and brown.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fk.3.14.
Subject
Geography Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Banks, Hammond, active 1711 - 1715 publisher.
Added entry--name
Woodward, Thomas, ? - d. 1751? publisher.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B48567