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Encuadernación de tapa dura. Zustand: Bien. 1788. Printed for J.F. & C. Rivington, A. Hamilton, et al, London. 1 volume. In-fólio, 45cm. Enc. Volume the Fifth Containing the Addenda, Index, Arrangement of the Plates and the Plates. Encadernação da época inteira de pele com restauros. Manchas de água nas folhas de guarda e ocasionalmente em outras folhas. Muito bom estado.

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),.

2°, XXVII, ca. 3000 unpag Bl., 144 blattgr. Kupfertafeln., einige Falttafel., Bibliotheksbände (neu aufgebunden) u. etwas beschnitten., Etwas stockfleckig u fingerflelckig, eingie Blätter knittrig u. angeschmutzt, einige Bl. hinterlegt - insgesamt ein schönes Exemplar. Titelblatt verso jeweils Bibliotheksstemp. Aus der Bibliothek von Wolverhampton. -"Eines der bedeutendsten frühen enzyklopädischen Wörterbücher In engl. Sprache. Hat das Erscheinen der Enzyklopädie von Diderot und d'Alembert maßgeblich veranlasst und beeinflußt" (Lenz, Werner: Kleine Geschichte Großer Lexika. Daten und Fakten über 500 Lexika und Enzyklopädien aus aller Welt. 1980).- Ephraim Chambers (c.1680 ? 15 May 1740) was an English writer and encyclopaedist, who is primarily known for producing the Cyclopaedia, or a Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.Chambers was born in Milton near Kendal, Westmorland, England. Little is known of his early life but he attended Heversham Grammar School, then was apprenticed to a globe maker, John Senex, in London from 1714 to 1721. It was here that he developed the plan of the Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. After beginning the Cyclopaedia, he left Senex's service and devoted himself entirely to the encyclopedia project. He also took lodging in Gray's Inn, where he remained for the rest of his life. Chambers died in Islington and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.The first edition of the Cyclopaedia appeared by subscription in 1728 and was dedicated to George II, King of Great Britain. When he died in 1740, he left materials for a Supplement; edited by George Lewis Scott, this was published in 1753.He also wrote for, and possibly edited, the Literary Magazine (1735?1736), which mainly published book reviews. Chambers worked on translating other works in French on perspective and chemistry from 1726 to 1727, including the Practice of Perspective from the French of Jean Dubreuil. He also worked with John Martyn to translate the History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris (1742). 30000 gr. Schlagworte: Alte Drucke - nach 1550, Lexika.

Leather. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Four volumes of the famous Chambers Cyclopaedia, which first began in 1728. This work is Abraham Rees' improved edition of Chambers' Cyclopaedia. He re-edited the original work in 1778 and created the supplements which contained much new matter. His edition was originally published in 1781-6 before a reprint in 1788-91. Therefore this set is a very early edition of Rees' publication. For this edition Rees is said to have added more than 4,400 new articles.With an illustrated frontispiece to the first volume.Comprising volumes I and II of the original work and the two supplement volumes. This set is four volumes total. Without the plate volume which is often bound separately.This set is without the plate volume which was issued separately.Volume I is dated 1786, Volume II is dated 1779, Volume III is dated 1781 and Volume IV is dated 1783.Bookplates to the front pastedown , 'FW Brydges Esq Tiberton, Herefordshire' and 'Robert Henry Lee Warner'. Both of these individuals were from Tyberton Court which was built in 1729 for William Brydges. Robert Henry Lee-Warner was a descendent of the Brydges family and the house passed to the Warner family due to the lack of male heirs during the early nineteenth century. It was inherited by Anne Brydges who married Rev. Henry Lee Warner.A comprehensive encyclopaedia, with some tables throughout including one showing the Sun's declination.An important edition of this noted encyclopaedia. In a contemporary half calf binding with paper covered boards. Externally, worn to the spines. Loss to the head of the spine to all volumes, heavier to volume I. Splits to the joints of all volumes, though hinges remain firm. Patches of rubbing to the paper covered boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional light spotting to pages. Good. book.