A new and exact description of Moscovy· : (1.) Containing its state antient and modern, situation, extent, latitude, division into provinces, rivers, soile, sterility, and fertility, with the commoditys, and observations on the extreamitys of weather hot and cold. (2.) Of the citys and towns, fortification and manner of building. The first discovery made by the English; populousness of the country, wild beasts, and disposition of the natives. (3.) Of their religion, marriages, obedience of the women to their husbands, divorce, burials, and other cerimonies. Their diet, liquors, stoves, hot-houses, habits, &c. (4.) Of the government of the provinces and shires, their courts of justice, holding parliaments, &c. (5.) Their military affairs, degrees and order in it, arms, discipline, with other matters. (6.) The revenues of the czar, coins, weights, measurs, tradeing, and of the raritys of Moscovy. (7.) The succession of the royal house of Muscovy to the present czar, being a historical account of all the material transactions happening for 1600 years. The manner of the czar's coronation, arms of Moscovy, and degrees of the nobility, &c. The whole containing all that is necessary to be known concerning that vast empire.
1698
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A new and exact description of Moscovy· : (1.) Containing its state antient and modern, situation, extent, latitude, division into provinces, rivers, soile, sterility, and fertility, with the commoditys, and observations on the extreamitys of weather hot and cold. (2.) Of the citys and towns, fortification and manner of building. The first discovery made by the English; populousness of the country, wild beasts, and disposition of the natives. (3.) Of their religion, marriages, obedience of the women to their husbands, divorce, burials, and other cerimonies. Their diet, liquors, stoves, hot-houses, habits, &c. (4.) Of the government of the provinces and shires, their courts of justice, holding parliaments, &c. (5.) Their military affairs, degrees and order in it, arms, discipline, with other matters. (6.) The revenues of the czar, coins, weights, measurs, tradeing, and of the raritys of Moscovy. (7.) The succession of the royal house of Muscovy to the present czar, being a historical account of all the material transactions happening for 1600 years. The manner of the czar's coronation, arms of Moscovy, and degrees of the nobility, &c. The whole containing all that is necessary to be known concerning that vast empire.
Created/published
London : Printed for R. Baldwin, and sold by most booksellers, 1698.
Description
[4], 28 p. ; (4to)
Note
Signatures: [A]² B-D⁴ E².
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), N541
Goldsmiths', 3473
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R38883
Goldsmiths', 3473
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R38883
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
158- 469q
Folger-specific note
Trimmed, affecting text at head and tail edges. Foxed, affecting text. Bound in paper over boards. Provenance: bought by the Folger from Robinson, 25 July 1956