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Thomas Moir An Inquiry Into Some of the Most Curious and Interesting Subjects of History, Antiquity, and Science; with an Appendix, Containing the Earliest Information of the Most Remarkable Cities of Ancient and Modern Times.
London Lackington Allen and Co, Adam Hogg, Alex Brown and Co, Clark and Sangster, William Mortimer 1817 Quarter Leather Very Good No Jacket Book
Size 7" x 4.25", 274 pages. Black quarter leather over marbled boards. Gilt titles to the spine. Condition very good plus, corners and edges a little rubbed, contents clean. A fascinating book. The introduction states: "To the Public. It is presumed that no information can be more acceptable to the generality of readers than that which furnishes them with an accurate idea of those subjects that are generally considered as most instructive at the present day; and in tracing them to their origin, when they happen to have had their birth among the ancients. Nor is it a task less pleasing to investigate those changes and revolutions, which, in the lapse of time, have gradually been occurring with regard to the state and circumstances of those interesting scientific topics, which it here becomes our province to review. This little work will therefore be found to embrace many points of the above description, which are sufficiently curious and interesting; and, as a preliminary article, to contain a very ample account of the numerous Religious Houses that formerly existed in England, Also a detailed statement of their Rental and of the Revenue that accrued to Government by their suppression at the Reformation. There will be found a most learned and able discussion concerning the Julian year, New Style, as also the Solar and Lunar Cycles. The reader will also be informed of the origin of the most renowned Military Orders of Knighthood, so much sought after, and usually esteemd one of the highest rewards of military merit - the customs of the Ancients with regard to the burying of their Dead - their treatment of dead bodies together with their manner of preserving the same, will be found to be amply unfolded, and to present matter equally amusing and curious. The work will also contain some curious inquiries into the architecture of the Ancients; with an Appendix, giving the earliest information of the most ancient and celebrated Cities; besides many other articles, equally valuable and entertaining. On the whole, the Editor flatters himself that this small Work will be found to convey the most correct information on the various subjects therin contained, and afford ample amusement, as well as useful instruction, to the attentive reader." 11421
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132.54 GBP
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