Erasme

1778 · 459172 — London : printed by authority for the authors; and sold by Alexr. Hogg 1778. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy only in contemporary leather covered boards with raised spine bands and a gilt-blocked red leather label mounted to the second compartment. Both joints broken with boards detached. Boards somewhat scuffed overall and heavily rubbed at the edges and some minor loss at the corners. Spine leather slightly cracked and with some surface loss at the bottom compartment. Internally very good with some faint foxing as expected of age but a very clean impression overall. Text block remains securely bound to the spine. An internally well-preserved and very serviceable copy overall. Date is suggested. Physical description: 1 unpaginated volume : illustrations ; 37 cm boards 8 cm spine. Notes: Includes list of subscribers. Spine title: ""Middleton's Dictionary."" Title continues: ""Containing A full Explanation of every Art and Science whether liberal or mechanical in which the Difficulties attending a thorough Knowledge of them are clearly pointed out and such Directions given as cannot fail of making their Acquisition easy and familiar to every Capacity Exhibiting among the various other Branches of Literature a copious Elucidation of the following viz. Agriculture Algebra Anatomy Architecture Arithmetick Astronomy Book-Keeping Botany Carving Catoptricks Chemistry Chronology Commerce Conicks Cosmography Dialing Dioptricks Ethicks Farriery Fluxions Fortification Gardening Guaging Geography Geometry Grammar Gunnery Handicrafts Heraldry History Horsemanship Husbandry Hydraulicks Hydrography Hydrostaticks Law Levelling Logick Maritime and Military Affairs Mathematicks Mechanicks Medicine Merchandize Metaphysicks Meteorology Musick Navigation Opticks Oratory Painting Perspective Pharmacy Philology Philosophy Physick Pneumaticks Rhetorick Sculpture Series and Staticks Statuary Surgery Surveying Theology Trigonometry &c. The Whole upon an improved Plan the Marrow and Quintessence of every other Dictionary and Work of the Kind being preserved and their Superfluities and Obscurities entirely omitted. Particular Attention has been given to every Thing valuable in Chambers The Encyclopedie printed at Paris; The Encyclopediae Britannica and other Publications of later Date. Including not only all the valuable modern Improvements which have been made by several eminent Members of the Royal Society the Royal Academy and the Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce but also a great Variety of other important Discoveries; which have been made and communicated to the Authors of this Work by some of the most distinguished Characters of this and other Nations. Eminent Engravers and Designers in the several Departments have been engaged at a very great Expence to unite their Abilities in producing the most masterly and superb Set of Copper-Plates representing upwards of One Thousand exact Figures such as Machines Instruments Implements Tools Plans Schemes Animals Vegetables Minerals Fossils and other Articles relative to the Subjects treated of in a Work of the utmost Consequence to Mankind. The Theological Philosophical Critical and Poetical Branches By the Rev. Erasmus Middleton Lecturer of St. Bennet's Grace-Church-Street and of St. Helen's Bishopsgate-Street; The Medicinal Chemical and Anatomical By William Turnbull M. D. Of Wellclose-Square London; The Gardening and Botanical By Thomas Ellis Gardener to the Lord Bishop of Lincoln and Author of The Gardener's Pocket Calendar; The Mathematical &c. By John Davidson Author of A Complete Course of Mathematicks; And the other Parts by Gentlemen of approved Abilities in the respective Branches which they have engaged to illustrate.""Subjects: Middleton Erasmus 1739-1805. Encyclopedias and dictionaries English - Early works to 1800. Science - Early works to 1800. Industrial arts - Early works to 1800. Arts - Early works to 1800. London : printed by authority for the authors; and sold by Alexr. Hogg hardcover