Encyclopaedia Britannica, or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature : constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems (v.10)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Encyclopaedia Britannica, or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature : constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems (v.10)
Other titles: Dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature
Classmark: Encyclopaedias ENC
Additional creator(s): Bell, Andrew (1726-1809) (Other); McFarquhar, Thomas (Other); Gleig, George Bishop of Brechin (1753-1840) (Other)
Publisher: Printed for A. Bell and C. MacFarquhar
Publication city: Edinburgh
Date(s): 1797
Language: English
Size and medium: 18 volumes in 20
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/208071
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010544329705181
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"Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates."
Errata in Astronomy, vol. 2, part 2: p. [1] at end; "Omissions": v. 4, p. [1], last group; v. 8: p. [1] at end; v. 9: p. [1] at end; v. 11 erratum for v. 8: p. [2] at end; v. 16: p. [1] at end.
Directions for placing the plates in all vol. at end.
Volumes 1-12 edited by C. Macfarquhar, v. 13-18 by G. Gleig. Cf. NUC pre-1956, v.159, p. 595.
Index to Astronomy: p. 593-600, v. 2, printed in four columns.
Engravings signed by A. Bell and Wal [Wale?].
Text in double columns.
Shoulder-notes and catch words.
Supplement in 2 vol. printed in 1801.
Contents: Vol.1. A to anger. -- vol.2. Angeremania to Barbarossa. -- vol.3. Barbarus to Bzovius. -- vol.4. C to cicer. -- vol.5. Cicero to diameter. -- vol.6. Diamond to Ethiopia. -- vol.7. Ethiops to goat. -- vol.8. Gobb to hydroscope. -- vol.9. Hydrostatics to lessons. -- vol.10. Lestoff to meconium. -- vol.11. Medal to midwifery. -- vol.12. Mill to Negropont. -- vol.13. Nehemiah to passers. -- vol.14. Passiflora to planishpere. -- vol.15. Plant to Rana. -- vol.16. Rana to Scotland. -- vol.17. Scotland to strawberry. -- vol.18. Strength to zymosimeter. -- vols.[19-20]. Plates.
Indexed in: BM v. 61, col. 616.
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