Description
The Encyclopaedia Britannica or Dictionary of Art, Sciences, and General Literature. With preliminary Dissertations on the History of the Sciences and other Extensive Improvements and Additions; including the late Supplement, a General-Index and numerous Engravings. Volume XVII only (PAN – PLA). Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1842. Seventh edition. Quarto (11.25 x 9 inches). 800pp. With eight full-page plates plus two page map of Persia and two page physical geography map of the world and two page physical geography plate at rear. Each plate with tissue guard. Bound in half leather and boards with gilt accents; five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; marbled page edges and end papers. The cover is worn with cracking to top and bottom of hinges but both boards still well attached & content still well bound, interior very clean with just very light foxing to some plates. Major topics include paper (2 plates), paper-money, Paraguay, Paris, parliament, Patagonia, pathology, pendulum (1 plate), Persia (map), perspective (3 plates), Perth, Peru, Petersburg, philology (1 plate), philosophy, phrenology, physics, physical geography (2 maps and 1 plate), physiology, plague and planting. Overall, very good.
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