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A Brief Description of the Whole World

Published: 1664
Length: 54,329 words
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Divisions: 36

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A briefe description of the whole world wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdoms of the same, with their academies, as also their severall titles and scituations thereunto adjoyning / written by the Reverend Father in God George Abbot ...

London Printed for Margaret Sheares ... and John Playfere ... 1664.

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PartOf Spaine.
PartOf France.
PartOf Germany.
PartOf Italy.
PartOf Denmarke, Sweden, and Norway.
PartOf Russia, or Moscovia.

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PartOf Hungaria and Austria.
PartOf Greece, Thracia, and the Countries neere adjoining.
PartOf the Sea running between Europe and Asia.
PartOf Asia, and first of Tartary.
PartOf Cathaie and China.
PartOf the East Indies.
PartOf Persia.
PartOf Parthia and Media.
PartOf Armenia and Assyria.
PartOf Chaldea.
PartOf Asia the lesse.
PartOf Syria, and Palestina, or the Holy Land.
PartOf Arabia.
PartOf Africke and Egypt.
PartOf Cyrene, and Africke the lesse.
PartOf Mauritania and Caesariensis.
PartOf Mauritaniā Tingitania.
PartOf the other Countries of Africke, lying neare the Sea.
PartOf Abissines, and the Empire of Prester John.
PartOf the Northern Ilands.
PartOf the Ilands in the Mediterranean Sea.
PartOf the Islands in the Indian Sea.
PartOf the Islands in the Atlantick Sea.
PartOf America, or the new World.
PartOf the parts of America towards the North.
PartOf Peru and Brasile.
PartOf the Countries that lie about the two Poles.
PartUNIVERSITIES.

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Author: Archbishop George Abbot (1562–1633)
Imprint: London Printed for Margaret Sheares ... and John Playfere ... 1664.
Extent: [2], 340 p.
Language: English
Catalogue: Wing A62 · ESTC R4619
Source: TCP A26435
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Text Creation Partnership)

A Brief Description of the Whole World

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