An accurate historical account of all the orders of the knighthood at present existing in Europe. To which are prefixed a critical dissertation upon the ancient and present state of those equestrian institutions, and a prefatory dicourse on the origin of knighthood in general, the whole interspersed with illustratins and explanatory notes by an officer of the chancery of the equestrian-secular and chapteral order of saint Joachim. Vol. I + II