(SHELTON, Maurice) An Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and Civil; from the first ages of the world ... to this present time ... with a compleat index to the whole. C. Rivington. 1718
vii, [i], 179, [21]pp. Contemp. panelled calf; hinges weakening but sound. Bookplate: Earl of Roden K. St. P. Robert Jocelyn, Earl of Roden, 1788-1870, Knight of St. Parick.
¶ESTC T89512. 'Distinction of Rank is highly necessary for the oeconomy of the World, and never call'd in question but by Barbarians and Enthusiasts'.
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£110
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