ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA; or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences...

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA; or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, third edition, 20 vols. (complete 18 vols. plus the 2 vol. Supplement), Edinburgh: printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797, Supplement printed for Thomson Bonar, 1801, num. engr. maps and plates, some folding (uncollated), uniformly bound in contemp. tree-calf, scuffed, worn to extremities, cracking to joints (some split), 4to [ESTC N6642 and supplement]; ... together with the 6 vol. Supplement (only) to the fourth, fifth, and sixth editions, Edinburgh, printed for Archibald Constable and Company, et al., 1824, num. plates (uncollated), contemp. half-calf over marbled boards, scuffed, worn to extremities, cracking to joints, some sections of backstrip detaching, 4to. (26) Provenance: Bookplate of Admiral Robert Dudley Oliver (1766-1850) to vol. II of the 1824 supplement (only). Thence by descent.

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