Newcastle, Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton
Born 1720-01-01
Died 1794-01-01
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL16068115A
Top Subjects
- Travel (1)
- Early works to 1800 (1)
- Description and travel (1)
- History (1)
- Ethiopia (1)
- Timber (1)
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Books by Newcastle, Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton
Total count: 2
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A new history of Ethiopiabeing a full and accurate description of the kingdom of Abessinia : vulgarly, though erroneously called the empire of Prester John : in four books : wherein are contained : I. An account of the nature, quality and condition of the country, and inhabitants : their mountains, metals and minerals : their rivers (particularly of the source of the Nile and Niger) : their birds, beasts, amphibious animals (as the river horse and crocodile), serpents, &c. ; II. Their political government : the genealogy and succession of their Kings : a description of their court, and camp, their power and military discipline : their courts of justice, &c. ; III. Their ecclesiastical affairs : their conversion to the Christian religion, and the propagation thereof, their sacred writings, their sacraments, rites, ceremonies, and church discipline : the decrease of the Romish religion, their contentions with the Jesuits, their separation from the Greek Church, &c. ; IV. Their private oeconomy, their books and learning : their common names, their dyet, marriages, and polygamies, their mechanick arts, and trades, their burials, their merchandize and commerce, &c. : illustrated with copper platesPrinted for Samuel Smith, bookseller, at the Prince's Arms in St Pauls Church-yard1682-01-01
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A letter to the Duke of Newcastle ... respecting His Grace's conduct in the disposal of commissions in the militiatogether with some remarks touching the French Revolution, a reform of Parliament in Great Britain, and the royal proclamation of the 21st of May : to which is added, an appendix containing an effectual plan for providing navy timper ...Printed for J.S. Jordan1792-01-01