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An Universal history, from the earliest account of time

Print Book, English, 1747-68
Printed for T. Osborne, London, 1747-68
Early works
65 volumes plates, folded maps, folded plans, folded genealogical table 21 cm
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v. 1-6. Asiatic history to the time of Alexander the Great
v. 7-10. Grecian and Asiatic history
v. 11. Asiatic history
v. 12-15. Roman history
v. 16. History of the Etruscans
v. 17. Constantinopolitan history
v. 18. History of the Carthaginians
v. 19. History of the Germans
v. 20. History of the Turks, Tartars, and Moguls
v. 21. History of Castile
v. 22. Life of Mohammed; History of the Arabs
v. 23-24. History of the Arabs
v. 25-27. History of the Turks and the empires founded by them in tartary and Lower Asia
v. 28-31. Description of the countries contained in the farther Peninsula of India
v. 33-34. History of the Othman Empire
v. 35. General description of Africa
v. 36. History of Abissinia, or upper Ethiopia. v. 37. Of the principal kingdoms and national lying along the Western Coast of Africa
v. 38. History of the Gold Coast ; History of the Ivory Coast ; History of the interior countries
v. 39. Modern history of Barbary ; Kingdom of Morocco ; History of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli
v.40. History of Maltha ; Visigoths in Spain ; Kingdom of Leon and Oviedo
v. 41. Being the chronological tables to the foregoing twenty volumes
v. 42-43. General description of Africa
v. 44-46. History of France from the reign of Clovis to that of Lewis the Fifteenth
v. 47. History of Italy
v. 48. History of Venice. v. 49. History of Naples ; History of Genoa
v. 50-51. History of the German Empire
v. 52. History of the United Provinces, or Republic of Holland
v. 53. History of Denmark
v. 54. History of Sweden
v. 55. History of Poland
v. 56. History of Russia
v. 57. History of the Tuscan States
v. 58. History of Bologna ; History of Parma and Piacenza, or Placentia ; History of Geneva ; History of Milan ; History of Modena and Ferrara ; History of Mantua ; History of the House of Savoy
v. 59-62. History of America. v. 63. History of Hungary ; History of the Modern Empire ; History of the imperial cities ; History of Bohemia ; History of the electorate of Saxony ; Line of Brunswic-Wolfenbuttel ; History of the Electorate of Brandenburgh ; History of Mecklenburgh ; Sequel of the history of Europe, continued to more modern times ; Supplement to the history of Portugal ; supplement to the history of France ; Sequel to the history of Germany
v. 64. Conclusion of the modern history
v. 65. Conclusion to the Modern history [and] Index
Title of v. [22-65] reads "The modern part of An universal history, from the earliest account of time. By the authors of the antient part. Vol. I [-XLV]."
Second edition of the "antient part"; 1st edition, 1736-44
Vols. 1-12, 1747; v. 13-20, 1748; v. 21, 1754; v. [22-34] 1759; [v. 35-45] 1760; v. [46-47] 1761; v. [48-49] 1767; v. [50] 1768; v. [51] 1761; v. [52] 1762; v. [53-54] 1761; v. [55-58] 1762; v. [59-61] 1763; v. [62-63] 1764; v. [64] 1765; v. [65] 1766
Articles by George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton, and others. cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue
Vol. 21, "Chronological tables to the foregoing twenty volumes."