The Library Companion, or the Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a Library, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0331678721 ISBN 13: 9780331678727

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Library Companion, or the Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a Library, Vol. 2

Varied and vast, and in great part unexplored, as is the wonderful continent, or rather peninsula, of africa, it is not a little surprising and consoling that those, to whom we are indebted for the most copious and correct accounts of it, are either Englishmen by birth, or were prompted to their exertions by British remuneration. Almost all that the Ancients knew of this extensive country, was confined to the Northern and Western coasts. Egypt, Tripoli, Algiers, and Morocco, were the principal places that came within the knowledge, or were subject to the policy, of the Grecian and Roman Empires and if we take.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0331678721
• ISBN 13: 9780331678727
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 439