A Complete Geographical Dictionary

Engraved prospects of Lyons, Warburg, Elburg and Osnabrück record eighteenth-century European towns in these prints from A C...

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Engraved prospects of Lyons, Warburg, Elburg and Osnabrück record eighteenth-century European towns in these prints from A Complete Geographical Dictionary, published in London by Scatcherd and Whitaker in 1787. John Seally supplied the geographical sections of this illustrated reference work, and its astronomical material drew on the papers of Israel Lyons. Broad views set each town in its landscape, with buildings, towers and defensive outlines as recognisable features, for late Georgian readers learning about distant places from a gazetteer that set out to describe the known world.

Engraved prospects of Lyons, Warburg, Elburg and Osnabrück record eighteenth-century European towns in these prints from A Complete Geographical Dictionary, published in London by Scatcherd and Whitaker in 1787. John Seally supplied the geographical sections of this illustrated reference work, and its astronomical material drew on the papers of Israel Lyons. Broad views set each town in its landscape, with buildings, towers and defensive outlines as recognisable features, for late Georgian readers learning about distant places from a gazetteer that set out to describe the known world.

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