The Compendious library: or Pocket companion for winter evening entertainments : Being a curious collection of instructive and diverting essays. Extracted from the best and most authentic authors, both antient and modern: but particularly from the high Dutch, French, and Italian. Volume I. Containing: 1. Several narratives of the most remarkable revolutions, conquests and insurrections. 2. Historical accounts of several foreign countries, and of such things as are therein most worthy of observance. With a great variety of copper plates.