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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),. Seller Inventory # 340504
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