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Leather. Zustand: Good. A revised edition of a popular reference work for scientific terms, including thousands of newly inserted articles, bound in full calf. A new edition of the Scientific and Literary Treasury, a comprehensive glossary of scientific and literary terms, written by English writer Samuel Maunder, and revised by English naturalist James Yate Johnson. In full calf. Contains an engraved frontispice of Gutenberg surrounded by renowned intellectuals, drawn by Henry Adlard. Most famous for his Biographical Treasury and Treasury of Knowledge, with this work being perhaps the most renowned of the many dictionaries he published. The new edition revised by Johnson includes thousands of newly inserted articles, and hoping to be more scientific while retaining its function as a popular reference. In full calf. Externally, the odd mark to boards, and rubbing to joints and edges. Calf spine and rear board loose from main text. Slight creasing to the spine, and bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. End papers are generally bright and clean with a couple of small marks. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound, with a gap between pp.818-819. Pages are mostly bright and clean, with the odd spot to first couple and last leaves. Good. H. Adlard (illustrator). book.…

1st Edition. 8vo, 21cm, The First Edition, 12p., plus folding view, page 12 chipped half way across at the top margin with 6 lines affected, disbound, otherwise very good to fine, the folding plate is fine, disbound, rare. Rare polar-themed ephemera relating to Barker's panorama in Leicester Square. This was a popular attraction, visited even by John Keats who was left tongue-tied. He wrote to his brother the month of its opening, "I have been very much pleased with the Panorama of the ships at the North Pole with the icebergs, the Mountains, the Bears, the Walrus the seals the Penguins and a large whale floating back above the water it is impossible to describe the place" (Letters 1814-1821, p. 95). The illustration in question was a double-decker panorama which was the first floor. On the second floor was the view of Petersburg depicted in the accompanying print. These plate illustrations could be purchased separately from the guide. There was another issue of the guide in 1820. …