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Chambers's CYCLOPAEDIA - 1738 (second edition)

Chambers's Cyclopaedia 1738


Chambers's Cyclopaedia 1738


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Chambers's Cyclopaedia 1738


1738


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Chambers, Ephraim

Cyclopaedia: or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; containing the definitions of the terms and accounts of things signify'd thereby, in the several Arts, both Liberal and Mechanical, and the several Sciences, Human and Divine: the Figures, Kinds, Properties, Productions, Preparations, and Uses, of things Natural and Artificial; the Rise, Progress and State of things Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military, and Commercial: with the several Systems, Sects, Opinions, &c. among Philosophers, Divines, Mathematicians, Physicians, Antiquaries, Critics, &c. The Whole intended as a Course of Antient and Modern Learning. EXTRACTed from the best Authors, Dictionaries, Journals, Memoirs, Transactions, Ephemerides, &c. in several Languages, Printed for D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. Senex and R. Gosling, W. Innys and R. Manby, J. & J. Pemberton, R. Robinson, C. Rivington, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, E. Simon, D. Brown, T. Longman, H. Lintott, and the Executors of J. Darby and F. Clay,

1738, 2nd edition corrected and amended with some additions, 2 volumes,
wear and scuffing to the full leather bindings which are contemporary with publication, hinges weak, else a nice copy (that would be nicer rebound) with fine unfoxed contents !!! A landmark work with all foldouts and illustrations present and in fine condition.

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