Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.
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A collection of proceedings and trials against state prisoners As well where they have had the Benefit of a Legal Trial, as where they have been cut off by Arbitrary Sentences, From the Norman Conquest to this present Time. Containing Upwards of two Hundred Cases and Trials not comprehended in any Collection yet Published. To which is added, So much of the Characters of the Persons accused, and the History of their Times; as will discover the Motives of the respective Prosecutions, and the Justice of the Administration in each Reign, as well as the various Interpretations and Alterations of the Crown-Law during this Period. Being a Work which gives great Light into many Obscure and Controverted Points in English History. Compiled by the Editor of the Four First Volumes of State-Trials in Folio.
Date: 1741- E-books
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Modern history or, the present state of all nations. Describing their respective situations, persons, habits, Buildings, Manners, Laws and Customs, Religion and Policy, Arts and Sciences, Trades, Manufactures and Husbandry, Plants, animals and minerals. By Mr. Salmon. Vol.II. Which contains the State of the Islands of Amboyna-Banda, and the Molucca's, where the Spices grow; and shews how barbarously the English were expell'd from those Islands by the Dutch. It contains also the State of Borneo, Java, and Sumatra, and enters upon the Continent of India, or the Empire of the Great Mogul. Illustrated with cuts, and maps, accurately Drawn, according to the Geographical Part of this Work, by Herman Moll.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: 1725- E-journals
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Modern history: or, The present state of all nations . Describing their respective situations, persons, habits, buildings, manners, laws and customs, religion and policy, arts and sciences, trades, manufactures and husbandry, plants, animals and minerals. Vol. Vth. and last. Containing the present state of Africa and America. The present state of Africa and America, and of the following kingdoms and nations in particular (viz.) Ethiopia, Zanguebar, Caffraria and the Hottentot nations; Congo, Angelo, Guinea, Nigritia or Negroland, Zaara, Biledulgerid, Morrocco, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and the African Islands, with an abstract of the ancient history of Africa. A desertation on the first peopleing of America. The discovery thereof by Columbus, the present state of ancient history of Mexico, with an account of the French settlement at of Florida; shewing the advantage of an alliance with Spain; a description of the Spanish Islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and Porto-Rico. A summary of the state of Spanish America. A description of Brazil or the dominions of portugal in America. A state oif the British plantations, particularly of Virginia, Maryland, New-England, Nova Scotia and Acadie, New-Britain, New-York, and New-Jersey, Pensylvania, Carolina and Georgia, Jamaica Barbadoes, the Caribbee Islands, the Bahama Islands, Bermudas, Newfoundland, and French-America. Illustrated with curious copper-plates of the habits and animals; with maps of the several countries described in this volume, accurately drawn, according to the geographical part of this work, by Herman Moll.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: 1739- E-books
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Modern history or, the present state of all nations. Describing their respective situations, persons, habits, ... animals and minerals. By Mr. Salmon Vol.III. ... Illustrated with cuts and maps, ... by Herman Moll.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: 1726- E-journals
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The new universal geographical grammar Wherein the situation and extent of the several countries are laid down according to the most exact geographical observations, and the history of all the different kingdoms of the world, is interspersed in such a manner, as to render the study of geography both useful and entertaining. Under these three heads: I. A compendious system of astronomy. II. The geographical definitions, problems, and general divisions, of the Earth, necessary to be understood as an introduction to this grammar. III. A particular description of the countries contained in each quarter of the world; their cities, chief towns, respective forms of government, forces, revenues, taxes, and history. Together with an account of the air, soil, produce, traffic, curiosities, arms, religion, language, universities, bishoprics, manners, customs, habits, and coins, in use in the several kingdoms and states treated of. Illustrated with a new and correct set of maps of the countries described. The whole being an improvement and continuation of Mr Salmon's grammar. Brought down to the present time by J. Tytler.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]