17th19th
17th19th is not a standard scholarly term. In practice, it is sometimes used as a condensed shorthand for a date range spanning the 17th through the 19th centuries, typically written as 17th–19th centuries. The absence of spaces and punctuation can make the meaning ambiguous without context.
Used in historiography, library catalogs, and data labeling, the range roughly corresponds to 1601–1900, since the
Ambiguities arise from the shorthand: some readers might interpret only a stylistic period or a non-standard