AuthorBrookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1721-1763.
TitleBrookes's General gazetteer improved; or, A new and compendious geographical dictionary; containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities ... &c. in the known world. With the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants, the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country ... and the various events by which they have been distinguished. Including a detail of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland: together with a succinct account of, at least, seven hundred cities, towns, and villages in the United States ... originally written by R. Brookes.
Edition1st American ed. from the latest European, with great additions and improvements in every part.
PublishedPhiladelphia, J. Johnson, 1806.
Descriptionxvi, [807] p. 8 fold. maps 22 cm.
SubjectsGeography -- Dictionaries.
Imprints, Early -- American -- To 1820.
Related TitlesGeneral gazetteer.
LC Card Number34-36284
Call Number/Copies 
 WRHS Research Library: G 102 B872 1806
mq47191: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
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