Peregrine Clifford Chamberlayne, Compendium Geographicum (1682)
Date
1682
Book title
Compendium Geographicum: Or, A More Exact, Plain, and Easie Introduction Into All Geography, Then yet Extant, after the latest Discoveries, or Alterations; Very Useful, especially for Young Noblemen and Gentlemen, the like not printed in English
Publication place
London
Publisher
William Crook
Text type
printed book
Genre
Proper and place name indexes
Subject area
place name
Summary
(a) "A Short Alphabetical Table Of the antient names of Nations, Countries, Cities, Mountains, Seas, and Rivers which are mentioned in this Book; compared with the Newer Divisions, and Names, by which they are generally known at this day" (61-70); (b) "A Table Of the Modern Names of all the Countries, Provinces, Islands, Cities, Towns, Hills, Seas, Lakes, and Rivers contained in this Book, reduced to an Alphabetical Order, and directing where they may be found in the Maps. Also shewing how the most noted of them were called anciently" (pp. 71-140)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: (a) Euripus, the Straights of Negropont. (p. 65); (b) Canada or New France, a Country in North America. (p. 82)
sample: (a) Euripus, the Straights of Negropont. (p. 65); (b) Canada or New France, a Country in North America. (p. 82)
Alston
XI.29
Wing
C1861 variant
