Cyclopaedia: Or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Containing an Explanation of the Terms and an Account of the Several Subjects in the Liberal and Mechanical Arts and the Sciences, Human and Divine. Intended as a Course of Ancient and Modern Learning. By E. Chambers. With Supplement of Modern Improvements, Incorporated in one Alphabet. By Abraham Rees.

Language: English

Published by W. Strahan, J.F. And C Rivington, A. Hamilton etc., London 1786, 1779,1781 + 1783., 1786

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mehr als 1000 Seiten je Band mit Titelkupfer in Band 1 und mit 145 (von 146) teils gefalteten Kupferstich-Tafeln sowie 78seitigem Index im Tafelband, (more than 1000 pages per volume with title copper in volume 1 and 145 (of 146) partly folded plates (copperplate engravings) and with 78-page index extensive index in the plate volume), Fast vollständiges Exemplar mit allen Vor- und Titelblättern, dem Titelkupfer, Tafeln, Verzeichnis der Tafeln (hier fehlt durch Fehldruck lediglich die letzte Seite) und Index. Es fehlt lediglich die letzte der 15 Botaniktafeln "Lycopodioides, Selaginoides, Porella". Dafür sind extra eingebunden 4 beidseitig bedruckte Tafeln "Specimen pf Printing Types, by William Caslon, Letter-Founder to is Majesty" und eine Falttafel "A Specimen of Printing Types" / Almost complete copy with all front and title pages, frontispiece, plates, list of plates (here only the last page is missing due to misprinting) and index. Only the last of the 15 botany plates "Lycopodioides, Selaginoides, Porella" is missing. For this purpose, 4 boards printed on both sides "Specimen pf Printing Types, by William Caslon, Letter-Founder to is Majesty" and a folding board "A Specimen of Printing Types" are included. The plate volume (V) is divided into the following subjects: Agriculture (2 plates), Analysis (4 plates), Anatomy(1 plate), Architecture (1)plate), Astronomy (7 plates), Birds (5 plates), Botany (14 of 15 plates), Chemistry (5 plates), Conics (1 plate), Corallines (2 plates), Dialling (4 plates), Electricity (5 plates), Fishes (5 plates), Flags (1 plate), Fortification (8 plates), Fossils (3 plates), Geography(1 plate), Geometry (5 plates), Gunnery (2 plates), Heraldry (4 plates), Horology (2 plates), Hydraulics and Hydrostatics (7) plates, Insects (3 plates), Magnetism (1 plate), Mechanics (7 plates), Microscopical objects (3 plates), Miscellany (3 plates), Music (1 plate), Natural History (1 plate), Navigation (2 plates), Optics (6 plates), Perspective (4 plates), Pneumatics (5 plates), Quadrupeds(5plates), Serpents (1 plate), Shells (3 plates), Ships (2 plates), Surgery(3 plates), Surveying (3 plates), Trigonometry (1 plate), Testaceous and Crustaceous Animals (1 plate). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 269000 2° (40 x 24 cm), Originalganzledereinbände der Zeit mit Rückentitel, fachmänisch restauriert, Papier ganz vereinzelt leicht braunfleckig, Innendeckel mit Exlibris, insgesamt sehr gute Exemplare mit sauberen Tafeln, (Original all-leather bindings of the period with spine title, professionally restored, paper with occasional slight brown spots, overall very good copies with clean plates), 5 Bände (4 Textbände A-Z und ein Tafelband), 5 volumes (4 text volumes A-Z and a table volume)..…

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Title
Cyclopaedia: Or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Containing an Explanation of the Terms and an Account of the Several Subjects in the Liberal and Mechanical Arts and the Sciences, Human and Divine. Intended as a Course of Ancient and Modern Learning. By E. Chambers. With Supplement of Modern Improvements, Incorporated in one Alphabet. By Abraham Rees.
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Chambers, E. and Abraham Rees:
Publisher
W. Strahan, J.F. And C Rivington, A. Hamilton etc., London 1786, 1779,1781 + 1783.
Publication year
1786
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Item weight
269,000 grams
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1997 gründeten wir das Antiquariat Silvanus in Bonn und hatten zunächst mehrere Jahre unser Ladenlokal nahe der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultäten in Bonn-Poppelsdorf. Seit nunmehr über 15 Jahren betreiben wir von Ahrbrück aus ein Online-Versandantiquariat mit Schwerpunkten Naturwissenschaft, Technik, Jagd und Forst, Botanik, Zoologie, Chemie, Physik, Mathematik sowie Geowissenschaften. Viel Spaß beim Stöbern! Wir sind jederzeit interessiert am Bücherankauf von wertvollen Einzelstücken und Fachbibliotheken.…

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