Encyclopedia Britannica (3 volumes, complete); or, a dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled upon a new plan, in which the different sciences and arts are digested into distinct treatises or systems; and the various technical terms, &c. are explained as they occur in the order of the alphabet
Edinburgh: Colin Macfarquhar, nd c. 1979. Reprint of the 1771 first edition. Leatherette. Quarto, pp. 697, 1009, 953, illustrated with 160 copperplates. The Encyclopedia Brittanica is the oldest continuously published encyclopedia in the world. It was founded by bookseller and printer Colin Macfarquhar and engraver Andrew Bell, both of Edinburgh..... More