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• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: Brookes' general gazetteer abridged containing a geographical description of the countries, cities, towns, forts, seas, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c., in the known world; with their longitude and latitude, bearings and distances from remarkable places, and the events by which they have been distinguished. (Printed for B. Law [and 24 others], 1796) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: Brooke's general gazetteer improved, or, A new compendious geographical dictionary containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country; the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns, their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles, from remarkable places, and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including a detail of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland : together with a succinct account of, at least, seven hundred cities, towns and villages in the United States, more than has appeared in any preceding edition of the same work, in which the numerous mistakes and deficiences of European gazetteers, respecting this country, are corrected and supplied : illustrated by eight maps, neatly executed (Published by Jacob Johnson, & Co. ... John Bioren, printer, 1806) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: Brookes' general gazetteer improved, or, Compendious geographical dictionary in miniature containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, cities, towns, rivers, lakes, seas, capes, mountains, &c. in the known world : with the extent and boundaries of each country; the trade and manufactures of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearing and distances from remarkable places : including a detail of at least two thousand towns, more than has appeared in any European edition of this work : illustrated with several maps (Published by Joseph Cushing;, 1815), also by J. Bain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: Compendious geographical dictionary (Printed for J. and F. Rivington, T. Carnan, and F. Newbery, junior [and 8 others], 1773) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: Compendious geographical dictionary (Printed for J. Johnson ... [and 35 others], 1809) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: Compendious geographical dictionary (Printed for B. Law [and 17 others], 1795) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary containing a description of all the empires kingdoms, states, republics, provinces, cities, chief towns, forts, fortresses, castles, citadels, seas, harbours, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, and promontories in the known world; together with the government, policy, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, bounds, and natural productions of each country; and the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearing and distances in English miles from remarkable places; as also, the sieges they have undergone, and the battles that have been fought near them, down to this present year : including, an authentic account of the counties, cities and market-towns in England and Wales; as also the villages with fairs, the days on which they are kept according to the new stile; as well as the cattle, goods and merchandises that are sold thereat (Printed for J. Newbery ..., 1762) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland (Printed for B. Law, C. Dilly ..., 1797) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: The General gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs manners and religion of the inhabitants : the extent, boundaries and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures and curiosities of the cities and towns, their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places, and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns and principal villages in Great Britain and Ireland (Printed by and for D. Buchanan, sold by him & by W. Creech, J. Fairbairn;, 1801) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes &c. in the known world : with the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country ... and the remarkable events by which they have been distinguished : illustrated by eight maps (Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, G. Wilkie, ..., 1815) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: A general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary containing descriptions of every country in the known world: with their towns, people, natural productions, &c., and the various remarkable events by which they have been distinguished : the population and area of all nations are also given in an appendix, including the census of Great Britain in 1861 (. Tegg, 1865), also by Alexander George Findlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: A general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary containing descriptions of every country in the known world, with their towns, people, natural productions, etc., and the various remarkable events by which they have been distinguished (Printed for T. Tegg;, 1846), also by Alexander George Findlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1750: A new universal gazetteer : containing a description of the principal nations, empires, kingdoms, states ... of the known world .. (Printed for W. W. Reed & Co., 1832), also by John Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)

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