• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: A new system of modern geography, or, A geographical, historical, and commercial grammar, and present state of the several kingdoms of the world : containing I. the figures, motions, and distances of the planets ... II. a general view of the Earth ... III. the grand divisions of the globe into land and water, continents and islands ... VIII. the history and origin of nations, their forms of government, religion, laws, revenues, taxes, naval and military strength
  • Other titles: Geographical, historical, and commercial grammar, and present state of the several kingdoms of the world
  • Contributor: Guthrie, William [Author]; Ferguson, James [Other]; Knox, John [Other]
  • Published: London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1795
    Farmington Hills, Mich: Thomson Gale
  • Issue: 6th ed., corr. and greatly enl
  • Extent: 1098, [28] p
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Astronomy ; Geography ; Historical geography ; Political geography
  • Reproduction series: The Making of the Modern World
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Thomson Gale
  • Reproduction note: Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: "To which have been added, the late discoveries of Dr. Herschell, and other eminent astronomers"
    Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 16207
    Includes index
    OCLC, 21942164
    Of this popular grammar, Knox, the bookseller, is said to be the real compiler.--NUC pre-1956
    Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London
    The original edition (1770) and many others have title "A new geographical, historical, and commercial grammar"; other later editions, "A universal geography."--NUC pre-1956