A New System of Universal Chronology
Philadelphia: Printed by J. Bioren, No. 88 Chestnut Street, 1808. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition. 16mo. Preliminary leaves, [2], ii-iv, 150, [2] pp, including 1 page Errata; Table of Contents. Page 23 is misnumbered 19. Tables. Full brown leather with gilt lettered red title label to spine. 1/2" x 1 3/4" torn from upper corner of title page; owner names; mathematical notations in pencil at rear; wear to boards; hinges cracked but holding; a good copy. Item #17871
"Wherein the Science is deduced from its first principles, and its usefulness explained and illustrated, by a table of remarkable æreas and events from the creation to the present time: together with annals of the principal empires and kingdoms, ancient and modern, arranged in chronological order, under separate heads." "Chronology is a science which takes account of time, enables us to trace out distinctly the dependence of events, and to distinguish them into those periods and divisions that shall lay the whole chain of past transactions, in a just and orderly manner before us."
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