The General History of Europe; and Entertaining Traveller. Comprising an Historical and Geographical Account of all the Empires, Kingdoms, & c.

Percival Barlow

London: W. and J. Stratford, 1790

Folio, 15 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches.  Bound in modern calf in contemporary style.  Good binding and cover, with contemporary spine label inlaid.  Initially issued as two volumes.  824 pages (Lacking final index leaf and 2 rear ads). Copper engraved frontispiece, 19 double-page maps, 52 plates (72 plates & views).   Some of the maps hand colored, or outlined in color.  Scattered staining, offsetting.  Some of the plates have had marginal restoration work.  Engraved maps after T. Bowen.  ESTC, 97895.  N.d. Printed ca. 1790, 1791, 1792.  

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"Great-Britain, Ireland, Germany, Turkey, Russia, Sweden, France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Bohemia, Prussia, Italy, Denmark, Hungary, Sardinia, Tuscany, Norway, Venice, United Provinces, Switzerland, Austria, Genoa, Geneva, Piedmont, Montserrat, Milan, Parma, Modena, and Tartary in Europe, From Their First Establishment to the End of the Present Year ; Including a Circumstantial Relation of the Origin, Progress, and Present State of Every Kingdom ; Together with Their Religion, Laws, Manners, Arts, and Sciences: Also the Particulars of the War Between Russia, Sweden, Germany, and the Porte ; Displaying Likewise the Contest Between the French King and His Subjects ; and the Late Disturbances in Holland. The Geographical Department is Illustrated with A Complete Set of Whole Sheet Maps of All the Kingdoms, on So Large a Scale as to Entitle Them to the Appellation of the European Atlas. The Topography of Every Country in Europe is Ample and Complete, Giving Not Only an Account of Cities and Capital Towns, But Also Every Thing Remarkable in Villages and Inferior Places, Their Ruins, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Curiosities, &c. "