Papers on European and American history., 1765-[1781, or after], undated.
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Notes on French history taken from printed works, 1765. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 165. (ii) Notes on Scandinavian history, the Goths, and Greenland, taken from printed works, 1781, undated. (Folio 25.) Monboddo numbers 199, 105, 204, 256, 106. (iii) Observations on Alexander Dow’s translation of ‘The history of Hindostan, 1768. (Folio 75.) Monboddo number 89. (iv) 'History of Man, part 2', concerning the history of North and South America, undated. (Folio 93.) Monboddo number 286. (v) 'Of the conquest of the Empire of Mexico by the Spaniards', undated. (Folio 143.) Notes taken from ‘Correspondance de Fernand cortès avec l'empereur Charles-Quint’, [1778] and B de las casas, ‘Relation des voyages et des découvertes que les Espagnols ont fait dans les Indes occidentales, 1698. Monboddo number 257.
Dates
- Creation: 1765-[1781, or after], undated.
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Extent
154 Leaves
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Arrangement
154 folios.
Bibliography
Casas, Bartolomé de las. ‘Relation des voyages et des découvertes que les Espagnols ont fait dans les Indes occidentales’ (Amsterdam, 1698). Cortès, Hernán. ‘Correspondance de Fernand cortès avec l'empereur Charles-Quint’ (Paris, [1778]). Dow, Alexander. ‘The history of Hindostan’ (London, 1768).
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