Encyclopedia Americana

Lieber, Francis (editor) , Assisted by E. Wigglesworth: ENCYCLOPEDIA [ENCYCLOPAEDIA] AMERICANA. VOLUMES I TO XIII. A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon. 1845 Philadelphia Lea & Blanchard ; fester Einband / hard cover

Hardcover Fair Description: This listing is for the complete 13-volume set of the 1845 edition of the Encyclopedia Americana. The first edition of the Encyclopedia Americana was published between 1829 and 1833, and was comprised of 13 volumes. A supplementary fourteenth volume was added in 1846, so 1845 was the last year the 13-volume set was published. The Encyclopedia Americana was the first significant American encyclopedia after Dobson's Encyclopaedia, the latter of which was prominent in the late 1700s. Features: Books are bound in brown leather and have plain leather boards and modest gilt decoration on their spines. Edges have faded marbling. All books are in similar, Fair condition. Most boards are heavily rubbed, though the boards on a couple of books are only moderately rubbed. All books have moderate to heavy wear at edges. (There is no loss to cardboard with any of the volumes, but leather has worn away on some edges, leaving the cardboard a bit exposed. ) Leather backstrips are all moderately rubbed. The front pastedowns of all books have the previous owner's ink stamp (dating from the 1800s) and, in some cases, the endpapers have light pencil notation. All endpapers are toned and brittle. All 13 interiors are in tight, clean condition. Pages are lightly toned, some with slight to moderate foxing, but none are missing and all text is fully readable. Books are excellent reading or reference copies, and since all original binding is intact, they may be good candidates for repair or rebinding. Individual defects follow. Volume I: Both boards detached, but still present. Title page detached and somewhat edge-worn, but still present. Volume II: Boards were once detached, but have been tightly stitched up along both the front and rear joints. Stitches date from the 1800s. A 3" long 1" wide piece of leather is missing from the lower backstrip, and the leather at the upper spine is cracking. Title page is missing. Volume III: Front board is detached, but present, and shows slight evidence of stitching near upper joint. Volume IV: Significant rubbing to boards and joints, 1" long 1" wide chips from leather at both upper and lower spine ends, and hinges cracked, more so with front hinge. Volume V: Both boards detached, but present, and evidence of stitching to front board along joint. Majority of backstrip chipped away with the exception of a small upper portion, and two long strings are hanging from backstrip. Title page detached but present. Volume VI: Hinges cracked internally and externally, but boards are still attached, the front board more so than the rear board. 2" long 1" wide chip from upper corner of second blank front flyleaf. Volume VII: Boards detached, but present, one long string dangling from upper backstrip. Volume VIII: Boards detached, but present, heavy chipping to upper 2" of backstrip and slight chipping to lower spine end. Volume IX: Leather backstrip heavily rubbed, and beginning to crack and peel, tight stitching along front joint. Slight to moderate foxing throughout. Volume X: Hinges lightly cracked both internally and externally. Volume XI: Significant vertical crack down length of backstrip leather, front hinge cracked, rear hinge cracked internally and externally and becoming detached as a result. 5" long 1" wide chip from fore edge of front free endpaper. Volume XII: Upper 3" of backstrip missing. Hinges cracked. Volume XIII: Stitching along front and rear joints, small chip from upper spine end, upper 1/3 of front free endpaper missing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; varied pages; West wall room 1 sml 13 volumes brown, black boxes (bagged) /gold histcat scicat soccat

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The Americana Annual. An Encyclopedia of the Events of Yearbook of the encyclopedia Americana, 5 Bde., 1976 - 1980. O. O., Grolier Incorporated, 1976 - 1980.
Sehr guter Zustand aller Bände, Seiten sauber und fleckenfrei. Zeitgeschichtlich aufschlussreiches Ergänzungswerk zur Encyclopedia Americana.

Braune Original-Ganzkunstlederbände im Format 26 x 18,5 cm mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel sowie weiterer Goldprägung, Buchdeckel mit umlaufenden Prägeleisten. Jeder Jahresband im Umfang von ca. 600 S., jeweils mit zahlreichen Statistiken zur amerikanischen Politik und Gesellschaft, Mitarbeiterverzeichnis und Register. Mit zahlreichen, teils farbigen Abbildungen und Illustrationen. Ergänzendes Jahrbuch zur Encyklopedia Americana, der ältesten und traditionsreichen amerikanischen Enzyklopädie, die erstmalig von 1829 bis 1833 in 13 Bänden erschien. Herausgeber der Erstausgabe war seinerzeit der liberale, aus Berlin stammende Deutsch-Amerikaner Francis Lieber, der sich später in den Vereinigten Staaten einen Ruf als Begründer der Staatswissenschaften erwarb. Als Vorbild und Vorlage bei der Neuherausgabe der "Americana" diente Lieber die von 1827 bis 1829 erschienene 7. Auflage des Brockhaus Lexikons.

[SW: Grolier Enzyklopädie Amerika amerikanische Encyclopedia americana Jahrbuch]

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AMERICANA ANNUAL. Yearbook of the encyclopedia Americana. 1974-1984. Washington.

Grolier Limited. Orig.cloth. 4to. (ZY23126) A complete account of the outstanding events of a historical year is given. America's oldest encyclopedia yearbook in continuous publication, a supplement to the "Encyclopedia Americana".

[SW: Afrika, African and Negro Studies; Sozialwissenschaften; USA; USA]

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Story, Joseph. Morris Cohen, New Introduction: Joseph Story and the Encyclopedia Americana. 2006

[Story, Joseph]. Horowitz, Valerie L., Editor. Joseph Story and the Encyclopedia Americana. With an Original Introduction by Morris L. Cohen [1927-2010], Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Clark, New Jersey: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2006. xv, 206 pp. ISBN-13: 9781584775287. ISBN-10: 1584775289. Hardcover. New. * Never before gathered in any volume, this work presents eighteen articles about major legal subjects by Joseph Story [1779-1845] produced for the first edition of the Encyclopedia Americana (1829-1833), which was edited by Francis Lieber [1798-1872]. Little-known today because they were written anonymously and never published in any other form, these extended essays are fascinating distillations of Story's jurisprudence. Many of them were written during his dual tenure as Supreme Court justice and Dane Professor at Harvard Law School. We offer them in an enlarged print version of their original form, now with an extensive introduction by Morris L. Cohen, an appendix with texts of rare related materials and now a detailed index. Ranging from "Codes," "Common Law" and "Congress of the United States," to "Law of Nations," "Natural Law" and "Usury," they are fascinating distillations of Story's jurisprudence. Story was appointed the youngest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1811 and in 1829 became the first Dane professor of law at Harvard Law School. An important educator, he wrote several influential treatises, such as the landmark Commentaries on the Constitution (1833).

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