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, peculierly [sic] attributed to England and English-men. The whole work alphabetically digested, and very helpful to the readers of history / Licensed October 29th, 1685. R.L.S. [Anon].
- Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.
- Date:
- 1686
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London : Printed for John Harris, at the Harrow against the church in the Poultrey, 1686.
Physical description
8 unnumbered leaves, 159 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves ; (12mo)
References note
Wing V598
ESTC R21854
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), V598
Notes
"This is Langley's translation arranged alphabetically, with some alterations, omissions, and additions"--J. Ferguson. Bibliographic notes on the English translation of Polydore Vergil's work, "De inventoribus rerum" (Archaeologia, 1888. vol. LI, pt. I, p. 138)
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