The origin of laws, arts, and sciences, and their progress among the most ancient nations
An English translation of Goguet's French history of ancient civilization, published in Edinburgh in 1775 for scholarly readers interested in the beginnings of law, craft, and learning. Copperplate engravings mix Egyptian obelisks and hieroglyphic panels with technical views of ploughs in landscape settings, giving designers antiquarian inscription blocks, bird and figure glyphs, and clean outline drawings of farm implements.
