A pleasant and compendious History of the first Inventers and Instituters of the most Famous Arts, Misteries, Laws, Customs and Manners in the whole World [De inventoribus rerum]. Together with many other Rarities and Remarkable things rarely known, and never before made Publick. To which is added, several curious Inventions, peculiarly attributed to England & English-men

London: printed and are to be sold by Edw. Poole, 1702. Pp. [i]-[xvi], 1-44, 35-159, [4, ads]. 1 vols. 12mo. Twentieth century quarter brown morocco and cloth boards, retaining an early nineteenth century ownership signature of "Thomas Lovatt His Book 1800. Pp. [i]-[xvi], 1-44, 35-159, [4, ads]. 1 vols. 12mo. Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum, first published in Venice in 1499, and incessantly reprinted - in the 16th century with an altogether different English abridgement; in this form, with an introduction signed I.H. [John Harris], it was first issued in 1686. The text is complete despite the irrgular pagination.
An interesting dictionary of the origins and explanations of all manner of human activities, including the Appendix of "Rare Inventions, peculiarly attributed to England & English-men" ESTCT 182511; for the 1702 edition, OCLC records only a digital facsimile of original in the Bodleian