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Title

The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary : Containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states, republics, provinces, cities, chief towns, forts, fortresses, castles, citadels, seas, harbours, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, and promontories, in the known world : together with the government, policy, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants : the extent, bounds, and natural productions of each country, and the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns : their longitudes, latitudes, bearings and distances from remarkable places, as also the seiges they have undergone, and the battles fought near them : including an authentic account of the counties, cities, market-towns and principal villages in Great Britain and Ireland : this edition includes, not only an accurate description of the new discovered islands in the South Seas, from the most authentic accounts -- but also a very considerable number of articles respecting America, and several hundreds peculiarly relative to Ireland, never in any former edition -- together with all the alterations which the late wars and revolutions in states have occasioned in geography up to the present period : embellished with maps / originally compiled by R. Brookes, M. D. : revised, corrected and greatly improved by W. Guthrie and E. Jones.

Author

Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.

Publication

Dublin : Printed by P. Wogan ..., 1808.

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Additional Authors

• Wogan, Patrick.
• Guthrie, William, 1708-1770.

Description

xxiv, [816] p. 6 fold. maps.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Compendious geographical dictionary

Subject

• Geography > Dictionaries

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Pforz (Brookes, R. General gazetteer)

OCLC

15157157

Author

Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.

Title

The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary : Containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states, republics, provinces, cities, chief towns, forts, fortresses, castles, citadels, seas, harbours, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, and promontories, in the known world : together with the government, policy, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants : the extent, bounds, and natural productions of each country, and the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns : their longitudes, latitudes, bearings and distances from remarkable places, as also the seiges they have undergone, and the battles fought near them : including an authentic account of the counties, cities, market-towns and principal villages in Great Britain and Ireland : this edition includes, not only an accurate description of the new discovered islands in the South Seas, from the most authentic accounts -- but also a very considerable number of articles respecting America, and several hundreds peculiarly relative to Ireland, never in any former edition -- together with all the alterations which the late wars and revolutions in states have occasioned in geography up to the present period : embellished with maps / originally compiled by R. Brookes, M. D. : revised, corrected and greatly improved by W. Guthrie and E. Jones.

Imprint

Dublin : Printed by P. Wogan ..., 1808.

Edition

Eighth edition.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Local Note

Binding: Original gray boards, front cover detached, spine title in ink: Guthrie's Gazetteer. -- Acquired by the Pforzheimer Library through Argosy Book Store, February 28, 1963.

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Added Author

Wogan, Patrick. Printer

Guthrie, William, 1708-1770.

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, former owner.

Research Call Number

Pforz (Brookes, R. General gazetteer)