The new universal traveller. Containing a full and distinct account of all the empires, kingdoms, and states, in the known world. Comprising also an interesting detail of the manners, customs, constitutions, religions, learning, arts, manufactures, commerce, and military force, of all the countries that have been visited by travellers or navigators, from the beginning of the world to the present time: accompanied with a description of all the celebrated antiquites, and an accurate history of every nation. from the earliest periods... / by J. Carver. esq., author of Travels through the interior parts of North America.

  • Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.
Date:
1779
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Printed for G. Robinson, in Patermoster-row, 1779.

Physical description

1 unnumbered leaf, iii, 668 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 37 plates (part color) : frontispiece, illustrations, 18 maps ; (folio)

Related material

Travels through the interior parts of North America

Notes

"This compilation the widow of Captain Carver denied to be the work of her husband"--Lowndes Bibliographer's manual
"Sold his name to a historical compliation, which was published in a large folio volume, entitled The new universal traveller (London, 1779)"--Appleton's cyclopaedia of America biography.

References note

ESTC T133709

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